Results from a new trial indicate that immunotherapy could successfully be used to treat the most common form of colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer.
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The use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) for diabetes or obesity is associated with a lower quality of bowel preparation among patients undergoing colonoscopy, according to a study published in the ...
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Researchers at the University of Kentucky have found that, for much of the past two decades, Appalachian Kentuckians have been more likely to die from colorectal cancer compared to the rest of the state and country's population.
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Developing chemotherapy drugs against breast cancer is costly, slow, and often inefficient, with more than 95% of screened drug candidates failing in patient trials. A new technique for 3D cell culturing, developed by researchers ...
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There is no significant association between exposure to immunosuppressive therapies and development of incident cancers among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a history of cancer, according to a study published ...
Jun 11, 2024
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The popular prebiotic sodas known as Poppi may not be quite as good for your gut as the company claims.
Jun 4, 2024
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Ulcerative colitis (UC) is an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that causes inflammation and ulcers (sores) in the digestive tract. Ulcerative colitis affects the innermost lining of the large intestine, also called the colon ...
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An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that over ten times more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer-free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers ...
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In the fall of 2023, NIST's scientists in Charleston, South Carolina, received a special shipment of containers packed with baggies full of frozen human feces.
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It was an act of desperation: A woman with irritable bowel syndrome was looking for relief from her symptoms. She decided to try an at-home fecal microbiota, aka a "poop transplant."
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In human anatomy, the intestine (or bowel) is the segment of the alimentary canal extending from the pyloric sphincter of the stomach to the anus and, in humans and other mammals, consists of two segments, the small intestine and the large intestine. In humans, the small intestine is further subdivided into the duodenum, jejunum and ileum while the large intestine is subdivided into the cecum and colon.
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