Gastrointestinal Cancer

The partnership aims to raise awareness and advance research for liver cancer.

Immuno-Oncology (IO) and novel agents targeting the microenvironment were the focus of the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).

While the use of nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) shows promise for a subgroup of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), 32% still experienced a treatment-related adverse effect.

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.

Codman pumps, manufactured by Cerenovus, are no longer being produced as of April 1, because of manufacturing issues, however, there are other ways to deliver possibly life-extending intrahepatic treatment.

The National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable has created a special toolkit to help physicians successfully determine and evaluate family history to detect colorectal cancer at an earlier age.

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.

BLU-667 appeared to be well-tolerated and had broad clinical benefit among patients with advanced, RET-altered solid tumors who progressed on prior therapies, according to study findings from a phase I clinical trial presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2018.

Patients with stage III colon cancer who ate at least 2 servings of nuts per week had superior disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS), according to results from the CALGB 8903 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

John Marshall, MD, explains that health care providers need to retool their thinking when young people present with GI complaints, and be open to the possibility that these could indicate colon cancer.

The FDA has granted a priority review to the combination of nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) for the treatment of adult patients with microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) following progression on a fluoropyrimidine, oxaliplatin, and irinotecan.

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.