Gastrointestinal Cancer News

Anxiety and depression that may follow a cancer diagnosis, especially as a patient approaches the end of life, can be incapacitating and difficult to assuage.

Sessile serrated polyp detection rate was the only quality metric reduced when trainees participated in colonoscopy, highlighting the importance of careful examination of the right colon when trainees are present, according to new data.

This year’s European Society for Medical Oncology Congress featured potentially practice-changing research in kidney cancer, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, lung cancer and melanoma.

The addition of bevacizumab to trifluridine and tipiracil extended OS among patients with advanced colorectal cancer, according to a topline data announcement.

AI-assisted colonoscopy increased the proportion of patients requiring intensive surveillance by 35% in the United States and 20% in Europe, potentially improving cancer prevention but increasing costs and patient responsibility.

In its 12th annual Cancer Progress Report, American Association for Cancer Research outlined substantial strides against cancer, including a 2.3% decrease in cancer deaths between 2016 and 2019.

The FDA approved sodium thiosulfate to reduce risk for cisplatin-associated ototoxicity among certain children with cancer.

Patients at high risk for gastric cancer should undergo 1-year surveillance endoscopy, regardless of whether they initially underwent intensive index endoscopic examination using white light and narrow-band imaging, according to a study.

The FDA granted priority review to tucatinib in combination with trastuzumab for treatment of certain adults with colorectal cancer.

It is well known that obesity, physical inactivity and a poor diet increase the risk for various cancer types and contribute to adverse outcomes among adults with certain malignancies.