Colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States, but it doesn't have to be. Now, a new, non-invasive home test for colon cancer will make screening more accessible to the millions of people who have avoided it. Colonoscopy is recommended once every 10 years...
in patients with cirrhosis and fever, a high index of suspicion is required for joint infection as a potential cause of fever or deterioration in the cirrhotic's patient general condition.doi:10.1016/S0016-5085(98)85719-3Luchtefeld, M.A....
23,24confirmed that larger tumor size was associated with significantly poorer OS than smaller tumor size in a given subset of gastric cancer, such as Borrmann type III, node-negative, or T4aN0M0 stage disease. As digestive
Colon cancer is the most common, and the most preventable, form of gastrointestinal cancer. Survival rates have improved markedly, and long-term survival can now be achieved in patients with advanced-stage cancers at diagnosis.
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the prognostic value of primary tumor sidedness (right vs left) in colon cancer.
CRC: Colorectal Cancer EU: The European Union f-Hb: faecal-Haemoglobin FIT: Immunochemical quantitative test L-y-L: Life-years-Lost gFOBT: the guaiac faecal occult blood test MISCAN-colon: Microsimulation Screening Analysis PPV: Positive predictive values ...
death rates (mortality) from colorectal cancer by 30-40%. If no colonic abnormalities are found in an individual whose stool contains occult blood, consideration then is given to examining the stomach and the small intestine as sources of bleeding....
However, compared with the early stage, the separation of cancer cells from the stroma region becomes more challenging in advanced stages, as scattered cancer cells invade through different layers of the tissue, which may influence the reproducibility and accuracy of LCM enrichment. Our study paves...
PURPOSE: To assess the accuracy of water-enema multidetector computed tomography (WE-MDCT) in extra-rectal colon cancer staging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty-three patients (mean age 70years) with extra-rectal colon cancer proven by colonoscopy and biopsy were prospectively evaluated by preoperative ...
As an anticancer Chinese herbal medicine, the effective components and mechanism of Actinidia chinensis Planch (ACP, Tengligen) in the treatment of colon cancer are still unclear. In the present study, the integration of network pharmacology, molecular docking, and cell experiments was employed to ...