... chemotherapy. This is very important. We knew that African Americans were not receiving chemotherapy for rectal cancer at the same rates as white Americans and it was contributing to their increased ...
... plan sphincter-sparing surgery in patients with rectal cancer, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at ... cancer resection," he said.
The study included 39 patients (23 men, 15 women), ...
... week course of radiation before surgery for rectal cancer leads to a reduced risk of recurrence ... before surgery reduces the risk of local cancer returning, however, this has to be balanced against any ...
... chemotherapy and/or radiation.
Neoadjuvant therapy should not be considered a "one size fits all" approach for rectal cancer patients, said the report's primary author, Mohammed Mohiuddin, MD, FRCR, ...
With the advancement of imaging techniques, the accuracy of preoperative rectal cancer staging has increased dramatically, and the preservation of physical function in rectal cancer patients has ...
... of the cancerous tumor and repair of the rectum, but also on restoring continence. For these reasons, rectal cancer has been a difficult arena to apply advances in minimally invasive surgery.
...
... subsequent diagnoses of bladder, lung and colorectal cancer to determine whether the incidence rate of these secondary ... 8-fold rate of lung-cancer resections and 1.7-fold higher rate of rectal cancer.
... effect of vitamin D among colorectal cancer patients -- merit further research, but it is too ... D reduce the risk of developing colon and rectal cancer by about 50 percent, but the effect on outcomes ...
... the intestinal wall. This technique is particularly useful in patients with pancreatic, esophageal and rectal cancer.
"Curvilinear endosonography will likely become the dominant technology within ...
The depth of transmural tumour invasion along the rectal wall layers and involvement of the regional lymph nodes constitute major factors in the prognosis of rectal cancer...
... any studies that combined both colon and rectal cancer because exercise has not been shown to affect ... a 23 percent reduction in their risk of colon cancer. Those highly active women walked briskly for ...
... to significantly raise
the risk of breast, liver and rectal cancer, and is estimated to
account for more than 7,000 extra ... to
identify cases of cancer among a group of 1,280,296 middled-aged
women. ...
... survival.
"We're not sure why there were early deliveries in women with colon or rectal cancer. It could be related to a pregnancy-associated bacterial infection or an inflammatory response linked ...
... ," Dr. Schoen said. "That might not only prevent progression to cancer, but even polyp recurrence."
According to co-investigator ... , nearly 41,000 cases of rectal cancer, and almost 50,000 deaths due ...
... 50,000 will die from it this year, according to the American Cancer Society. More than a million have been diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer in the U.S. as of 2006, the National Cancer Institute ...
