Fecal Blood Test More Cost Efficient Than Colonoscopy At Detecting Colorectal Cancers
While colonoscopies are the most accurate method for the early detection of colorectal cancers, screening with fecal occult blood tests results in more efficient use of limited budgets, according to a new study by researchers at RTI International...

It's Time: Bowel Cancer Screening Cannot Wait For A Fourth Election
Australia's next government must close a yawning gap in the nation's cancer control response by committing now to fully implementing the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program before more lives are lost unnecessarily, Cancer Council Australia said today...

Etubics Enters Phase I Cancer Clinical Trials Focused On Colorectal Cancer
Etubics Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company developing "next generation" vector vaccines, has entered into Phase I trials at Duke University with its ETBX-011, a therapeutic vaccine candidate that is intended to treat Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA)-expressing cancers such as colorectal cancer. Etubics dosed its first patient yesterday. Etubics was recently granted clearance by the U.S...

CTC Screening For Colorectal Cancer Not Cost-Effective When Reimbursed At Same Rate As Colonoscopy
Computed tomographic colonography, also known as virtual colonoscopy, is not cost-effective if reimbursed at the same rate as colonoscopy, according to a study published online July 27 in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Colon cancer is one of the most common cancers in people over the age of 65, and there are several screening methods used to detect it...

Physician Authors Editorial On Cost-Effectiveness Study For Colon Cancer Screening
A UNC physician authored an editorial in the July 27 online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI) commenting on results of an analysis of the cost effectiveness of colonoscopy versus computed tomographic colonography (CTC)...

Lack Of Insurance Coverage Remains Obstacle To Wider Colorectal Cancer Screening With CT Colonography
A recent questionnaire submitted to a group of patients at one of the nation's largest general hospitals suggests that a significant number of patients, who have previously refused colorectal cancer screening, are willing to undergo computed tomography colonography (CTC) (or virtual colonoscopy), but not willing to pay for the exam themselves when not covered by insurance, acco...

GE Launches Study To Improve Diagnosis Of Early Stage Colon Cancer
A team of scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm for the GE (NYSE: GE), has launched a study with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, (MSKCC) one of the world's premier cancer centers, to better understand the early stages of colon cancer. The goal is to yield new insights that improve treatment selection and outcomes for cancer patients in the future...

Researchers Block Stress Responses In Cancer Surgery Patients To Save Lives
Cancer surgery wreaks havoc on a body's immune system and stress hormones exacerbate the problem. As a result, about half of those who undergo surgery for tumor removal experience a recurrence of cancer in the same region or other parts of the body. A new clinical approach being developed and tested by Tel Aviv University researchers may be the key to making cancer operations more successful...

ARUP Laboratories To Offer New Blood-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Test
ARUP Laboratories, a leading national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory and a leader in innovative laboratory research and development, announced it is offering the Septin 9 methylated DNA test, a new blood-based colorectal cancer screening method...

Increases In Leptin May Promote Colorectal Cancer
While researchers have known that obesity increases the risk for the development of colon cancer, the underlying molecular mechanisms have remained unclear...

Rate Of Women Getting Mammography Screenings Stalls; Colorectal Cancer Screenings Remain Underused By Medicare Patients
The New York Times: "One-fifth of American women ages 50 to 74 have fallen behind on mammography screenings for breast cancer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are reporting...

Combined Technologies Offer Promise For Detecting Colon Cancer In Women
A team led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has found that combining novel optical technologies with a common colon cancer screening test may allow doctors to more accurately detect the presence of colon cancer, particularly in women...

INTEGRIS And ProCure Announce Breakthrough Treatment For Patients With Anal Cancer
The INTEGRIS Cancer Institute of Oklahoma and the ProCure Proton Therapy Center announce a breakthrough treatment approach for anal canal cancer. For the first time in the United States proton therapy is now being used to treat this type of cancer...

Cetuximab In Colon Cancer Therapy: New Recommendations
In a report published in the July 2010 issue of the American Society for Clinical Oncology Post, new recommendations on the use of the drug cetuximab have been issued after officials halted enrollment in a phase III clinical trial in patients with spread of colon cancer into regional lymph nodes whose tumors had been surgically removed...

Spanish Study Analyzes The Probability Of Surviving Nine Types Of Cancer
"The innovative factor contributed by our work is its relevance to population and measurement of relative survival, which enables us to discover survival related to cancer in a more precise way", María Dolores Chirlaque, main author of the study and researcher in the Epidemiology Service of the Department of Health and Consumption in Murcia, explains to SINC...