Colorectal Cancer

Data presented at this year’s American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting suggest young-onset colorectal cancer often is misdiagnosed and identified at later stages.

A recent cohort study identified an increasing incidence of colorectal cancer diagnoses among Canadian men and women younger than 50 years.

New Jersey has become the eighth state to allow terminally ill patients to request a prescription from a physician for medication to end their lives.

Colorectal cancer diagnoses among individuals aged younger than 50 years continued to increase in the United States over the past decade, according to results of a retrospective study published in Cancer.

The risk for colorectal cancer is about 2.5 times higher in patients who have advanced adenomatous polyps detected during colonoscopy vs. those with no adenomas, but the risk does not appear to be increased among patients with non-advanced adenomas, according to new research published in JAMA.

The time between colorectal cancer resection and the first postoperative surveillance colonoscopy may be safely extended beyond the current recommendation of 1 year, according to data presented at the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Annual Meeting in Phoenix.

SAN DIEGO — Colorectal neoplasia prevalence was higher among young African Americans vs. Hispanics, which could explain the differences in the burden of colorectal cancer among African Americans compared with Hispanics, according to data presented here at the 2012 Digestive Disease Week Annual Meeting.

SAN DIEGO —   Colorectal cancer resection rates were observed to increase in patients aged younger than 50 years, while the opposite trend was observed in the colorectal cancer resection rates for patients aged oler than 50 years, according to data presented at the 2012 Digestive Disease Week Annual Meeting.

A diet high in red meat, fish and sugar-sweetened beverages, but low in coffee, high-fat dairy and whole grains, was associated with an increase in C-peptide levels, yielding a 35% increase in the risk for colorectal cancer among women.

AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research