Gastrointestinal Cancer

Nurses can help coach and push patients and their physicians along to do the steps that are needed to get good screening, says John Marshall, MD.

CE lesson worth 1 contact hour that is intended to advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, and other healthcare professionals who care for patients with cancer.

It is important for nurses to help patients implement physical interventions that are feasible and acceptable for those with colorectal cancer diagnoses.

Genetic changes that occur during DNA cloning in people with microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) colorectal cancer may affect the efficacy of targeted and immunologic therapies. Repeated testing may be necessary to ensure that targeted treatments keep up with the changes in DNA.

According to results from an analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database of the National Cancer Institute, older adults with colorectal cancer are more likely to develop cardiovascular disease and congestive heart failure.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a risk factor for cancer, according to a recent report about a 7.5-year Korean study.

PEGPH20 (pegvorhyaluronidase alfa), a novel formulation of a naturally occurring enzyme, is being investigated as a biomarker-driven treatment for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

A recent study examined the incidence of liver cancer in many countries around the world and found that although it is among the leading causes of cancer deaths, in most cases, it can be prevented.

The FDA announced today that it has approved the first biosimilar for the treatment of multiple types of cancer.

The FDA has granted accelerated approval to nivolumab (Opdivo) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).

Researchers at Mayo Clinic evaluated the use of secreted proteins as markers of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

A recent study found that those who survived the Holocaust had an increased rate of lung and colorectal cancer.

The Visible Ink program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center helps patients and survivors express their stories and feelings through writing.

The occurence of hand-foot skin response could signal regorafenib activity in hepatocellular cancer.

The risk of developing certain types of cancer can be increased by exposure to work-related stress.

Researchers found that the rate of suicide in patients with lung cancer is much higher than those with other types of cancer.

Among long-term CRC survivors, regular use of aspirin is associated with overall survival and use of NSAIDs was significantly associated with improved survival only in individuals with KRAS wild-type tumors.

According to findings presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting, patients with low-risk advanced colon cancer would benefit from a reduction in chemotherapy post-surgery, without increasing risk of recurrence, to reduce risk of neuropathy.

An ongoing phase III trial is evaluating the combination of napabucasin, a stemness inhibitor, and FOLFIRI chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.

More Stage I cancers were diagnosed after the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, within five screenable disease types: colorectal cancer, female breast cancer, cervical cancer, lung cancer, and prostate cancer).

Eating tree nuts may improve overall survival and reduce the risk of recurrence in patients with colon cancer.

The FDA has approved regorafenib as a second-line treatment for patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma, who had previously received sorafenib.

For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who have progressed on sorafenib, regorafenib has shown to be an effective second-line treatment. The FDA has granted the agent a priority review