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News: May 28, 2012
Colon Cancer Gaps for Blacks, Whites Largely Due to Screening
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- Differences in screening account for much of the disparity in both colorectal (colon) cancer incidence and death rates between white and black Americans, a new study says. The screening differences are responsi...
Resolve to Take Colon Cancer Test, Experts Say
FRIDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- If you're 50 or older, consider making it a new year goal to get screened for colorectal cancer, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy suggests. Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable canc...
U.S. Blacks More Likely to Die of Colon Cancer Than Whites: Study
FRIDAY, Dec. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Although colorectal cancer death rates in the United States have fallen across the board over the last 20 years, the dip has been smaller among blacks than whites, a new study indicates. Specifically, the racial...
Colon Cancer Prognosis Worse for the Obese, Type 2 Diabetics
FRIDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- People who have been diagnosed with colon cancer have a poorer prognosis if they're obese or have type 2 diabetes, new research suggests. Two new studies that looked at the impact that body-mass index (BMI) and a...
Women's High Blood Sugar Linked to Colorectal Cancer: Study
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a link between high blood sugar levels and an increased risk of colorectal cancer in older women, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed 12 years of data collected from 5,000 postmenopausal wome...
High-Fiber Diet May Help Thwart Colon Cancer
FRIDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Eating a high-fiber diet may reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, especially if the fiber is from cereal and whole grains, according to a new review. British and Dutch researchers analyzed 25 studies that incl...
Can NSAIDs Cut Colorectal Cancer Deaths in Older Women?
SUNDAY, Oct. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Older women who take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs -- such as aspirin or ibuprofen -- appear to have a lower risk of death from colorectal cancer than women who don't use these medications, a large new st...
Link Explored Between Colon Cancer, Bacterium
TUESDAY, Oct. 18 (HealthDay News) -- Colorectal cancers contain high levels of a bacterium that may contribute to the cancer and could prove important in diagnosing, treating and preventing it, according to new research. A team from the Dana-Farbe...
Broccoli, Cabbage, Other Veggies May Protect Against Colon Cancer
MONDAY, Sept. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Eating fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of some colorectal cancers, according to a new study. Austrailian researchers examined the diets of 918 colorectal cancer patients and 1,021 people with no histo...
Southern States Lag Behind North in Drop in Colon Cancer Death Rates
THURSDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- While there has been a significant decline in colon cancer death rates in the past two decades, a new report reveals that the downward trend is not spread evenly across the United States, with the southern part...
Kentucky Goes on the Offensive Against Colorectal Cancer
FRIDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Kentucky has one of the nation's highest death rates for colorectal cancer, surpassed only by Mississippi and Alaska, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Not coincidentally, about a ...
Get Screened for Colorectal Cancer: Who, Me?
FRIDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- It may sound simple: Colorectal cancer is generally considered one of the most preventable types of cancer that people can develop. So get screened and prevent it. But the devil is in the details. Cancer experts ...
Race Seems to Play Role in Colorectal Cancer Screening
THURSDAY, May 5 (HealthDay News) -- Elderly black and Hispanic Americans are less likely than whites to get colorectal cancer screening, even though Medicare has expanded coverage for screening tests such as colonoscopy and fecal occult blood test...
Aspirin May Protect Against Colorectal Cancer -- But Only in Certain People
FRIDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Taking aspirin to protect against colorectal cancer may be effective, but mostly in people at increased risk for the disease due to elevated levels of an inflammatory biomarker in their blood, according to a ne...
Popular Bone Drugs Linked to Reduced Colon Cancer Risk
TUESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- People who take drugs called bisphosphonates to prevent bone loss may also reduce their risk of developing colorectal cancer by almost 60 percent compared to those not on the drugs, a new study suggests. Bispho...
Healthy Living Can Prevent Nearly 25% of Colorectal Cancers
TUESDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- As many as 23 percent of colorectal cancers could be prevented if people followed five simple healthy lifestyle recommendations, Danish researchers say. The recommendations -- which would improve overall health...
Mammogram Visit a Good Time to Arrange Colonoscopy: Study
MONDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Colorectal cancer screening among poor minority women could be increased by offering to arrange for the procedure during a mammography visit, a new study suggests. While colorectal cancer screening is inadequate...
Low-Dose Aspirin May Cut Chances of Colon Cancer
THURSDAY, Oct. 21 (HealthDay News) -- People who regularly take a low dose of aspirin may be reducing their risk of developing colon cancer by 24 percent, a new study finds. Moreover, for those who take low-dose aspirin (about 75 milligrams/day) b...
Low-Dose Aspirin May Reduce Colon Cancer Risk
THURSDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Taking low-dose aspirin daily may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, new research finds. Prior research has shown higher doses of aspirin reduces the risk of colon cancer. But this study is among the first...
Health Care Gap May Raise Rates of Colorectal Cancer Death in Blacks
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Unequal health care may explain why black colorectal cancer patients have a much higher death rate than white patients, a new U.S. study suggests. Researchers analyzed national colorectal cancer death rates b...
Could Hot Weather Affect Results of a Colorectal Cancer Test?
WEDNESDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) -- An immunochemical test used to detect signs of colorectal cancer is less accurate when done in the summer than in cooler times of the year, Italian researchers report. Although the particular brand of test use...
Breast, Colon Cancer Screening Rates High, But Not High Enough
TUESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) -- While more Americans are being screened for colon and breast cancer than ever before, millions aren't getting the tests and thousands are dying needlessly as a result, according to U.S. health officials. Two new...
Aspirin May Increase Risk of Crohn's Disease
MONDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- A new British study finds that people who take aspirin every day have a higher risk of developing Crohn's disease, a potentially devastating digestive illness. But it's still not very likely that aspirin users wil...
Colon Polyps More Common in Hispanic Men Than Women
SUNDAY, May 2 (HealthDay News) -- Among Hispanics, men are twice as likely as women to have colon polyps and are also more likely to have multiple polyps, a new study in Puerto Rico has found. The researchers also found that the study patients old...
One Sigmoidoscopy Boosts Colon Cancer Survival Odds
TUESDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- Adults who undergo a sigmoidoscopy examination between ages 55 and 64 could significantly reduce their odds of developing and dying from colorectal cancer, new research shows. Flexible sigmoidoscopy enables do...
Many Doctors Not Using Colon Cancer Test Properly
THURSDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) -- Many American doctors don't make proper use of a colorectal cancer screening method called the fecal occult blood test, a new study claims. Researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Virtual Colonoscopy a Good Bet for Elderly
THURSDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Virtual colonoscopy is a safe and effective way to screen older patients for colorectal cancer, a new study indicates. Researchers looked at the use of computed tomographic colonography (CTC) in 577 patients a...
Blood Test Spots Colon Cancer, Polyps
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The first blood test to reliably detect early-stage colorectal cancer and polyps may help identify patients who would gain most from colonoscopy, say Israeli researchers who developed the screen. The blood te...
Selenium, Omega-3s May Stave Off Colorectal Cancer
TUESDAY, Dec. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Certain dietary supplements appear to affect the development of colorectal cancer or its recurrence, two new studies suggest. In one study, researchers from the U.S. National Institute for Environmental Health S...
U.S. Cancer Cases, Deaths Continue to Drop
MONDAY, Dec. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Better screening, healthier living and new treatments have all continued to help cut the annual number of cancer cases and deaths in the United States, a new report says. The findings showed that new cancer cases...
Smoking Exposure Now Linked to Colon, Breast Cancers
THURSDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Add colorectal cancer to the list of malignancies caused by smoking, with a new study strengthening the link between the two. And other studies are providing more bad news for people who haven't managed to quit...
CT Scan May Predict Colon Cancer Survival
TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A CT scan of liver tumors caused by the spread of colorectal cancer may help predict overall survival after chemotherapy, researchers report. Adding bevacizumab (Avastin) to cytotoxic chemotherapy has been shown...
Cetuximab Helps Treat Colorectal Cancer
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Adding the drug cetuximab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy can shrink tumors and boost the odds of successful surgery in colorectal cancer patients with inoperable metastatic liver lesions, new research suggests. ...
Blacks at Greater Risk for Colorectal Cancer
MONDAY, Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that blacks are at much higher risk of developing colorectal cancer than other groups of people, and they are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of the disease. Researchers from the ...
Younger Women With Colon Cancer Outlive Men
TUESDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that estrogen or other hormones could help younger women with colorectal cancer live longer than men with the disease. "We've known for a while that estrogen prevents colorectal cancer, bu...
Too Few Latinos Get Colorectal Cancer Tests
MONDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Language barriers may contribute to lower screening rates for colorectal cancer among Mexican-Americans, a San Diego State University study suggests. A 2005 telephone survey of close to 17,000 older Californian...
Colon Cancer Screenings Still Too Low: Study
TUESDAY, Sept. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Despite highly publicized education campaigns and widespread agreement about the importance of colorectal cancer screening, only 61 percent of Americans who should be screened do so, new research finds. Rates f...
Aspirin May Stem Deaths From Colorectal Cancer
TUESDAY, Aug. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Taking aspirin might not only reduce the risk of getting colorectal cancer, but it also might lower the odds of dying if you have it, new research suggests. People with colorectal cancer who took aspirin regula...
Study Questions Lymph Node Harvesting in Colorectal Cancer
MONDAY, July 20 (HealthDay News) -- More isn't necessarily better when it comes to surgically removing lymph nodes to diagnose late-stage colorectal cancer, new research shows. In 1990, the World Congress of Gastroenterology recommended that surge...
Study Finds Possible Genetic Indicator of Colorectal Cancer
THURSDAY, June 18 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they may be moving closer to developing a genetic test for colorectal cancer that could indicate who needs a more advanced colonoscopy screening. In a study released this week, an international ...
For Some, Virtual Colonoscopy May Be Just As Good
TUESDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) - CT colonography, a less invasive option to colonoscopy, is an effective way to detect colon cancer in people who have an elevated risk of the disease because of family history or a personal history of colon poly...
Racial Clusters Seem to Affect Access to Colon Care
TUESDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans appear to have less access to colorectal cancer specialists, which means they may be less likely to receive timely and appropriate treatments, researchers say. In a study that analyzed populatio...
Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising for Under 50 Set
MONDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Despite a steady decline in colorectal cancer rates in the United States in the past two decades, new research indicates that the disease is actually on the upswing among people younger than 50. The analysis sugg...
Alcohol, Cigarettes and Diabetes Up Colorectal Cancer Risk
FRIDAY, June 5 (HealthDay News) -- It's been known for some time that obesity and eating lots of red meat can raise the risk of colorectal cancer, but new research sheds light on other lifestyle factors that increase risk. Drinking alcohol, smokin...
Simple Test Could Detect More Gastrointestinal Cancers
TUESDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- DNA testing of a person's stool can accurately screen for more types of cancer than previously thought, a new study has found. While DNA stool testing has been successfully used for early detection of colorectal...
Chemo Alone Is Best for Advanced Colon Cancer
SATURDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) --Surgery is no longer the best treatment option for most patients with advanced colorectal cancer that has spread to other organs, a new study suggests. Immediate colon resection (surgical removal) following diag...
Avastin Shows No Benefit Against Early Stage Colon Cancer
SATURDAY, May 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer drug Avastin, widely used for lung, breast and metastatic colorectal cancers, appears ineffective for patients with early stage colon cancer, a result the trial's lead author called "disappointing." ...
U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall
WEDNESDAY, May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Some 650,000 people are alive today who wouldn't be were it not for advances in cancer prevention, detection and treatment over the past 15 years, new statistics show. The American Cancer Society's Cancer Stat...
Erbitux May Help Some With Colorectal Cancer
WEDNESDAY, April 1 (HealthDay News) -- People with advanced colorectal cancer were modestly helped by the drug Erbitux, as long as they didn't have a particular gene mutation, a new study reports. The study involved more than 1,100 people who had ...
Gene Test May Help Predict Colon Cancer's Return
TUESDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A genetic test may better help survivors of colorectal cancer determine their risk of recurrence, a new study finds. A report in the Feb. 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that g...
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