Gastrointestinal Cancer News

SAN DIEGO — Liver stiffness assessment predicted liver-related complications and hepatocellular carcinoma development among patients with hepatitis C following direct-acting antiviral treatment, according to research.

Most patients with cancer demonstrated antibody responses to COVID-19 vaccination after two doses of the mRNA-1273 vaccine, according to an observational study published in JAMA Oncology.

Despite a decrease in cancer mortality among Black individuals between 1999 and 2019, cancer death rates remained highest among Black men and women compared with any other racial and ethnic group.

The expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act correlated with an increase in 2-year OS rates among patients newly diagnosed with cancer, according to study results published in JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Excess weight had a stronger impact on colorectal cancer risk than suggested in previous studies that did not consider cumulative lifetime exposure, according to a study published in JAMA Oncology.

The body has 25 types of functional bitter taste receptors, but tasting is not their only function.

Patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma were six times more likely to have had cholelithiasis or cholecystitis in the year before diagnosis compared with the general population, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

Between 2012 and 2019, esophageal cancer rates nearly doubled and prevalence of Barrett’s esophagus increased by 50% among adults aged 45 to 64 years, according to researchers.

Although most cancer centers may not screen every patient at every visit, I believe in it whole-heartedly, and this is what we do at Rush University. If we believe in the value of asking patients how they are doing, it’s hard to justify excluding certain visits from this practice, particularly considering we aren’t very good about predicting when any individual patient might be struggling.

Studies consistently have shown patients with cancer have a higher risk for suicide than the general public.