Colorectal Cancer

For National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Healio presents a collection of videos, Q&As and new data that details improved access to CRC care, the importance of early screening, updated guidelines and more.

Nearly one-third of older women who survived colorectal, endometrial or ovarian cancer reported lower extremity lymphedema, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

RFS is not an adequate surrogate for OS among patients who undergo resection for colorectal liver metastases, according to study results presented at Society of Surgical Oncology 2022 International Conference on Surgical Cancer Care.

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

In a Healio video exclusive, Gerard Mullin, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at Johns Hopkins University, told Healio that taller adults may have an increased risk for colorectal cancer.

Medical device company Medtronic and the ASGE have collaborated to create the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program, which aims to improve access to colorectal cancer screening technologies in underserved U.S. communities.

In patients with inflammatory bowel disease, colonoscopy within 3 years before colorectal cancer diagnosis was linked with early tumor stage detection, while colonoscopy within 1 year reduced overall all-cause mortality, according to data.

In a press room briefing, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. proclaimed March 2022 to be National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and announced the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.

Eating meat five times or less per week was linked to a lower overall risk for cancer, according to observational findings published in BMC Medicine.

The FDA has granted investigational device exemption to medical diagnostics company Check-Cap for a two-part pivotal study to evaluate C-Scan, a new screening test that detects precancerous polyps.