Targeted therapies are a type of medicine used to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with stage III or high-risk stage II colon cancer in a structured exercise program had 28% lower risk ...

Neoadjuvant therapy for patients with metastatic colon cancer with single-organ liver or lung lesions was associated with improved overall survival in comparison with adjuvant therapy, according to ...

An interview with Dr. Nancy Baxter from the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia, and Dr. Jeffrey Meyerhardt from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, co-chairs on “Adjuvant Therapy ...

What defines an elderly patient, and do we adequately assess them in clinical practice? It is a disservice to classify patients based on their temporal age alone, because there are several other ...

Better out than in, they say? At least that seems to be the general consensus amongst the who’s who of the wellness community—where colonics seem to be all the rage. If you’re not familiar with the ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Colorectal cancer often spreads to the liver, requiring prolonged chemotherapy. But now, doctors are turning to hepatic artery infusion. This therapy delivers ...

Stage 4 colon cancer is considered advanced: cancer has spread beyond your colon to distant organs. Treatment may involve a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or ablation.

In order to investigate if trapped iodide is organified in HCT 116 cells following CEA promoter-directed NIS gene transfer (CN-1), iodide organification was measured by trichloroacetic acid (TCA) ...

The identification of rare genomic alterations in patients with colorectal cancer gives oncologists the opportunity to treat patients who otherwise might not have many options. When Mia Balko, 48, ...