Colorectal Cancer
MRI has ‘big upside’ predicting which patients with rectal cancer could avoid surgery
MRI can help identify which patients with rectal cancer could avoid surgery based on response to neoadjuvant therapy, according to study results.
AI-assisted colonoscopy boosts polyp removal, but ‘only benign, non-adenomatous lesions’
PHILADELPHIA— AI-assisted-colonoscopy significantly increased the number of colonoscopy procedures in which only benign lesions were removed without additional adenomatous polyps, according to data at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.
Colonoscopy, stool-based screening outperforms blood test for colorectal cancer detection
Both colonoscopies and stool-based tests for colorectal cancer screening may be more efficient and cost-effective compared with blood-based tests, study findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine showed.
False-positive Shield test ‘does not appear’ to correlate with higher non-CRC cancer risk
PHILADELPHIA — Patients with a false-positive Shield test result did not appear to be at increased risk for non-colorectal cancer malignancies at 1 year compared with those with a true-negative result, according to a presenter here.
Lack of insurance causes ‘staggering’ disparities in advanced-stage cancer diagnoses
Lack of health insurance contributes to a high percentage of racial and ethnic disparities in advanced-stage diagnoses for several cancer types, according to results of a mediation analysis.
VIDEO: Primary sclerosing cholangitis increases risk for CRC, even among those without IBD
PHILADELPHIA — Primary sclerosing cholangitis is an independent risk factor for colorectal cancer, with an “almost three-times higher” risk among patients without inflammatory bowel disease vs. the general population, a researcher reported.
Harms of FIT screening outweigh benefits for those with no history of fecal hemoglobin
Individuals with no detectable hemoglobin in previously negative fecal immunochemical tests had a “significantly higher” harm-to-benefit ratio for screening, with researchers suggesting less intensive screening for this population.
Similar rates of FIT completion support commencing colorectal cancer screening at age 45
Similar rates of fecal immunochemical test completion and colonoscopy yields among patients aged 45 to 49 vs. 50 years supported updated guidelines which recommend the initiation of colorectal cancer screening at an earlier age.
Most uninsured adults are behind on routine cancer screenings
Adults without health insurance in the United States reported they did not have a routine medical visit or cancer screening in the past year, new survey data showed.
CRC detected via screening associated with better disease-free, overall survival
Disease-free survival at 3 years was significantly higher among patients with screen-detected colorectal cancer vs. those with clinically detected CRC, according to a study conducted in the Netherlands.