News tagged with colonization
Adherence to cancer surveillance guidelines varies
(HealthDay) -- Insured breast cancer survivors have high rates of guideline-recommended recurrence testing and non-recommended metastatic testing, while only about half of colorectal cancer survivors undergo ...
Cancer
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Tales from the crypt lead researchers to cancer discovery
Tales from the crypt are supposed to be scary, but new research from Vanderbilt University, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology and colleagues shows that crypts can be places of renewal too: intestinal crypts, that ...
Cancer
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Poor colonoscopy prep hides pre-cancerous polyps
(Medical Xpress) -- What happens on the day before a colonoscopy may be just as important as the colon-screening test itself.
Cancer
Mar 27, 2012 |
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'Obscurins' in breast tissue may help physicians predict and detect breast cancer
A new discovery published online in The FASEB Journal may lead to a new tool to help physicians assess breast cancer risk as well as diagnose the disease. In the report, researchers from Johns Hopkins University and the Un ...
Cancer
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Low-calorie diet may be harmful for bowel disease patients
In a surprising result, Michigan State University researchers looking at the effects of diet on bowel disease found that mice on a calorie-restricted diet were more likely to die after being infected with an inflammation-causing ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Study shows colorectal cancer screening rates high in patients with multiple health problems
A study by University of Kentucky researchers showed that in Appalachia, colorectal cancer screening rates were higher in the population with multiple morbidities or diseases compared to those who had no morbidities at all.
Cancer
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Health must be central to climate change policies, say experts
Health must be taken into account in climate change mitigation strategies. It is not widely appreciated that there are many benefits to health that are likely to accrue from a low carbon economy, say experts in a special ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Bright future ahead for antibody cancer therapy
Antibodies, once touted as the "magic bullets" of cancer care, are now fulfilling that promise and more advances are on the way, say cancer researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cancer
Mar 15, 2012 |
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Study examines outcomes among patients treated in universal health care system
Among hospitals in Ontario, Canada, those with higher levels of spending, which included higher intensity nursing and greater use of specialists and procedures, had an associated lower rate of deaths, hospital readmissions, ...
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Mar 13, 2012 |
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Financial hardship common among colon cancer patients
(HealthDay) -- Nearly 40 percent of patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer experience financial hardship, even if they have health insurance coverage, according to research published ...
Cancer
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Pressures to increase volume of colonoscopies adversely impacts how screenings are performed
Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found that 92 percent of more than 1,000 gastroenterologists responding to a survey believed that pressures to increase the volume of colonoscopies adversely impacted how ...
Cancer
Mar 12, 2012 |
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Gene-based test identifies poor-prognosis colon cancers
(HealthDay) -- A sensitive and specific gene-based classifier can be used to identify BRAF mutant colon cancer tumors and a subpopulation of BRAF wild-type tumors with poor prognosis, according to a study pu ...
Cancer
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Could a NOSH-aspirin-a-day keep cancer away?
The humble aspirin may soon have a new role. Scientists from The City College of New York have developed a new aspirin compound that has great promise to be, not only an extremely potent cancer-fighter, but even safer than ...
Cancer
Mar 08, 2012 |
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New research sheds light on cancer of the appendix
Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have demonstrated that cancer of the appendix is different than colon cancer, a distinction that could lead to more effective treatments for both diseases.
Cancer
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Study shows how high-fat diets increase colon cancer risk
Epidemiologists have long warned that, in addition to causing obesity, eating too much fat and sugar puts a person at greater risk for colon cancer. Now, researchers at Temple University have established a link that may explain ...
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Mar 07, 2012 |
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