http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Just two extra hours of focused training significantly increased the ability of physicians to find potentially precancerous polyps, known as adenomas, in the colon, according to researchers at Mayo Clinic in Florida. These findings suggest that new methods to educate endoscopists, the physicians who examine the colon, could increase colorectal cancer detection rates and potentially reduce cancer deaths. Results of the study were presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology in Washington, D.C. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-short-significantly-precancerous-polyps.html Cancer Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:27:42 EST news239268453 Scientists including those from Queen's University have discovered that taking regular aspirin halves the risk of developing hereditary cancers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-scientists-regular-aspirin-intake-halves.html Cancer Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:31:21 EST news238995072 (Medical Xpress) -- Cancer investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (Tennessee Valley Health System in Nashville) have found that eating a steady diet of red or processed meat, especially meat that has been cooked at high temperatures, may increase the risk of developing colon polyps. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-red-meat-colon-polyp.html Cancer Mon, 03 Oct 2011 08:10:20 EST news236848176 An analysis of results of more than 40,000 screening colonoscopies finds that men have a higher rate of advanced tumors compared to women in all age groups examined, suggesting that the age that individuals should undergo an initial screening colonoscopy should be sex-specific, according to a study in the September 28 issue of JAMA. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-age-screening-colonoscopy-men-women.html Cancer Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:00:01 EST news236353220 A new study from researchers in Indiana reports that use of a retroflexion technique in the right side of the colon during colonoscopy is safe and results in the detection of additional adenomatous (precancerous) polyps in approximately four percent of patients. This result is comparable to that expected from a second colonoscopy in the forward view. The study appears in the August issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-retroflexion-technique-colonoscopy-side-colon.html Cancer Thu, 04 Aug 2011 12:20:02 EST news231678309 Eating legumes at least three times a week and brown rice at least once a week was linked to a reduced risk of colon polyps by 33 percent and 40 percent respectively, according to Loma Linda University research recently published in Nutrition and Cancer. High consumption of cooked green vegetables and dried fruit was also associated with greater protection, the study shows. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-cooked-green-vegetables-dried-fruit.html Cancer Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:40:01 EST news231496012 (Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from the University of Leeds will carry out a series of experiments to see whether fish oil can prevent or treat the spread of bowel cancer to the liver. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-benefit-fish-oil-bowel-cancer.html Cancer Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:27:04 EST news228742013 A new study reports that colonoscopies done with suboptimal bowel preparation are associated with relatively high adenoma (precancerous polyp) miss rates, suggesting that suboptimal bowel preparation substantially decreases colonoscopy effectiveness and may mandate an early follow-up examination. In this study, in the context of suboptimal bowel preparation, of all adenomas identified, 42 percent were discovered only during a repeat colonoscopy, which was necessitated by an inadequate preparation during the first colonoscopy. The study appears in the June issue of GIE: Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-polyp-high-colonoscopies-poor-bowel.html Cancer Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:51:19 EST news227199059 Investigators at SNM's 58th Annual Meeting are presenting results from a phase 1 clinical trial for a cancer therapy that has the potential to kill colorectal tumors with less destruction of healthy tissue. Further research could lead to the use of this radioimmunotherapy to eliminate residual cancer after surgery or as a standard treatment to keep tumors from returning or spreading to other organs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-pretargeted-radioimmunotherapy-colorectal-cancer.html Cancer Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:50:01 EST news226584377 Nurse-driven, open-access colonoscopy programs are as effective and safe as colonoscopy following a consultation with a gastroenterologist, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-open-access-colonoscopy-safe.html Cancer Mon, 09 May 2011 11:00:34 EST news224157616