Depending on tumor location, presurgical radiation can improve overall survival, but that option comes with an increased risk ...

Eligible patients were of age 20-74 years with histologically proven primary colon cancer, rectosigmoid cancer, or upper rectal adenocarcinoma and with ... In the PTR plus chemotherapy arm, resection ...

A mum-of-two has detailed how a change in her toilet habits revealed she had developed a “deadly” cancer that is on the rise ...

Cape Fear Valley Medical Center has earned its fourth consecutive C grade in patient safety from a national nonprofit ...

Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) continues to pose a clinical and commercial challenge, with low 5-year survival rates and limited durable respons ...

Investigators pooled data from 261,906 patients with prostate cancer from 4 datasets from ... sigmoidoscopy, and rectal resection, compared with patients who did not receive the spacer in adjusted ...

The prostate is a gland, often described as walnut-sized, which sits under the bladder in those assigned male at birth. The ...

A new trial of patients with advanced rectal cancer has found that the addition of immunotherapy treatment alongside extended radiotherapy led to better rates of remission. The findings from the ...

Rectal cancer is a type of bowel cancer that develops in the last several centimeters of the large intestine, just before the anus. It’s one of the most common cancers in Europe, with over ...

The immunotherapy protocol successfully treated 100% of rectal cancer patients involved in the trial. “My husband, Tommy, and I were preparing for the worst,” recalled Maureen Sideris ...

Kelly Spill didn’t cry when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer at age 28. She held her emotions together when her surgeon told her that she might not be able to carry another baby ...

28,29 In conclusion, we suggest that early response assessment in neoadjuvant rectal cancer trials, on the basis of pCR, TRG, and NAR, may be pragmatically used in early phase II testing to identify ...