Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Use of aspirin or NSAIDs is associated with a reduced risk for colorectal cancer, although the extent of the risk reduction varied based on genetic factors, according to results of a case-control study.

Carbonic anhydrase IX, or CA-IX, expression was a crucial prognostic factor in predicting overall survival and disease-free survival in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma, according to study data.

If 80% of Americans underwent recommended colorectal cancer screening, nearly 280,000 new cancer cases and more than 200,000 cancer deaths could be prevented during the next 15 years, according to results of a modeling study.

Patients with early-onset colorectal cancer who lacked clinical features of Li-Fraumeni syndrome had germline TP53 mutations, according to findings from a recent study.

Patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma who had a high Khorana score or elevated blood urea nitrogen at baseline demonstrated a significantly greater risk for mortality within 6 months after surgical resection, according to study results.

Vegetarian diets are linked to a lower incidence of colorectal cancer, according to recent study data.

The SARAH Study, a large French study of patients with advanced, inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma, has completed enrollment with more than 400 patients and expects results to be available in 2016, according to a press release.

A majority of patients recently diagnosed with lung or colorectal cancers chose to include family members in treatment-related decisions, according to study results.

Laparoscopic colectomy has shown superiority in clinical trials to open colectomy, but most physicians still choose open resection as the standard of surgical care for colon cancer, according to study results.

Reduced cold and warm ischemia times could decrease the risk for hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after liver transplantation, according to data published in Hepatology.