Colorectal Cancer

In a video exclusive, Healio’s Health Equity Award winner Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil, discusses the importance of a collective, nationwide effort to recognize health care disparities and support disadvantaged populations.

Each year, the first Friday in March kicks off Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month with National Dress in Blue Day, a campaign aimed at increasing visibility, raising awareness and honoring those impacted by this highly preventable disease.

Medicare recipients with various cancer types had more frequent surgical complications when they also had at least one behavioral health disorder, according to study results published in Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Participation in early, routine screening for colorectal cancer using fecal occult blood testing was associated with a 14% reduction in CRC mortality in a cohort of nearly 380,000 individuals in Sweden, according to data.

In this Healio video, Rasmi Nair, MBBS, MPH, PhD, reports findings from a recent study, which showed 10% of at-home fecal immunological tests for colorectal cancer screening could not be processed, mostly due to specimen errors.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic identified differences in tumor-related bacteria that may improve understanding of young-onset colorectal cancer.

Cancer survivors with elevated levels of the protein N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide had increased risk for death compared with adults without cancer, according to a study in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Researchers have harnessed the ability of some molecules to vibrate strongly when stimulated by light, potentially laying the groundwork for a new approach to destroying cancer cells.

Researchers estimated the global lifetime risk for developing gastrointestinal cancer in 2020 was one in 12 people, while one in 16 people will die, with colorectal cancer presenting the highest risk compared with other GI cancers.

Patients who underwent cancer surgery had an increased risk for venous thromboembolism for up to 1 year after the procedure, results from a retrospective study published in JAMA Network Open showed.