Colorectal Cancer

Increased dietary and supplemental calcium intake appeared to reduce the risk for colorectal cancers among adults aged 50 years and older, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

In this video, Michael Cecchini, MD, discusses “practice-changing” data from the CheckMate 8HW study, which were presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

The AGA reported that it could not issue a recommendation for or against the use of computer-aided detection in colonoscopy due to “very low certainty of evidence” and “the close tradeoff between the desirable and undesirable effects.”

TNF inhibitor use demonstrates no negative impact on survival among patients recently diagnosed with colorectal, lung or prostate cancer, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Barclay Missen had resigned himself to hospice care.

Individuals with transportation insecurity appeared 41% less likely to undergo breast cancer screening than those without transportation difficulties, according to results of a cohort study.

The ACG has released its first guidance for gastric premalignant conditions, such as atrophic gastritis, gastric intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia, in sync with surveillance recommendations established for the colon and esophagus.

Use of an automatic quality control system during routine colonoscopy increased adenoma detection rate among low- and medium-level detectors in China, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Daily aspirin use after standard adjuvant therapy did not improve DFS for patients with colorectal cancer, according to results of a randomized phase 3 study.

The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer has released updated guidance establishing a “reasonable benchmark” for the quality of bowel preparation prior to a colonoscopy exam.