What Doctors Don't Tell YouResults of a new study by the American Cancer Society show that around 12 per cent of colorectal cancer deaths in the US are attributable to smoking. ...
Conventional screening tests for colorectal cancers are failing to identify a substantial proportion of cancers, say Australian researchers. ...
For more than a century and up until just a few years ago, a permanent colostomy was considered to be de rigueur in the treatment of colorectal cancer.
In this procedure, the diseased section of the colon is removed (a colectomy), and the functioning
Screening individuals aged 40-49 years for colorectal cancer is unlikely to yield much useful information, according to a new report.
In Europe and the US, the average life time risk of developing colorectal cancer is one in 20, but the risk can go up or down as a result of many factors: .. ...
Calcium supplements may reduce the risk of colon cancer, according to a new report. ...
Researchers from Belgium, France, the US and Poland have concluded that just because a tumour 'responds' to chemotherapy doesn't automatically mean a better chance of patient survival. ...
An aspirin a day may not, after all, be the great cancer preventative suggested by several studies. ...
The Pan European Trial in Adjuvant Colon Cancer-1 (PETACC-1) trial has been halted after preliminary results showed a high death rate from AstraZeneca's new drug, raltitrexed. ...
