A short course of immunotherapy given before surgery eliminated detectable colon cancer in a majority of patients whose tumors lacked a key DNA repair mechanism, according to results published in the ...

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer that had stopped responding to at least two prior treatment regimens gained meaningful extra months of life when bevacizumab was added to the chemotherapy ...

A 20-cent “wonder drug” may do more than manage blood sugar. Researchers are investigating whether a widely used diabetes medication could aid in the fight against colorectal cancer after the disease ...

Standard therapy for localized MSS colon cancer consists of up-front surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy based on pathologic TNM stage and other high-risk features. 62 In resected high-risk ...

The results of the phase 3 ATOMIC trial fired another volley in the ongoing debate over adjuvant vs neoadjuvant immunotherapy for patients with locally advanced colon cancer. But experts are divided ...

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A naturally occurring bacterium from amphibian intestines completely eliminated colorectal tumors in mice with a single ...

People with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) also have an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer. However, the exact mechanisms behind this are still largely unknown. The protein HKDC1 ...

While there are several treatment options for colon cancer, not all of them work for all cancer types. Deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) colon cancer is known to be less responsive to chemotherapy than ...

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology (Alliance) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review Genentech's supplemental Biologic License Application for ...

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