Liquid Biopsy Has Mixed Performance for Predicting Colon Cancer Outcomes
SAN FRANCISCO — In separate studies, liquid biopsy produced mixed results for guiding colon cancer treatment. Adjuvant chemotherapy guided by postoperative circulating tumor (ct) DNA did not lead to higher rates of DNA clearance as compared with patients who did not get chemotherapy. However, ctDNA did show promise for identifying patients with molecular residual disease […]
Dietary change starves cancer cells, overcoming treatment resistance: Laboratory research finds a low-protein diet can enhance standard treatment for colon cancer
A dietary change could be a key to enhancing colon cancer treatment, a new study from the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center finds. Cancer cells need nutrients to survive and grow. One of the most important nutrient sensing molecules in a cell is called mTORC1. Often called a master regulator of cell growth, it […]
Katie Couric’s Breast Cancer
In 2000, 2 years after the death of her husband, Jay Monahan, from colon cancer, Katie Couric underwent a colonoscopy live on “The Today Show,” leading to a 20% jump in national colonoscopy screening rates, something the University of Michigan dubbed the “Couric Effect.” Now, Couric is once again advocating for cancer screening. On September […]
Antibiotics linked to increased risk of colon cancer
There is a clear link between taking antibiotics and an increased risk of developing colon cancer within the next five to ten years. This has been confirmed by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, after a study of 40,000 cancer cases. The impact of antibiotics on the intestinal microbiome is thought to lie behind the increased […]
This 2-Minute Strategy Can Get Your Patients Vaccinated Against COVID
I am a gastroenterologist. I do colonoscopies to remove polyps to prevent colon cancer. I never thought I would be speaking to patients about vaccinations. That has changed with COVID-19. Everything has changed with COVID-19. There is so much misinformation and everyone has seen this term: vaccine hesitancy. The vaccine-hesitant are people who are not […]
Are Antibiotics Linked to Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer?
Use of antibiotics may lead to an increased risk of colon cancer at all ages, an analysis of a large Scottish primary care database suggested. Specifically, the study found that use of antibiotics was associated with an increased risk of colon cancer in both patients over age 50 (adjusted OR 1.09, 95% CI 1.01-1.18) and […]