Tag: Cancer: Colon

Screening rates improved in patients due for testing at a community health center predominantly serving people of color

Adding smoke exposure improves the current risk stratification for colorectal neoplasia surveillance strategies

Patients self-ordering FIT tests for colorectal cancer screening through an electronic reminder more likely to complete a kit

Risk for CRC, mortality increased with delayed receipt of colonoscopy compared with colonoscopy within one to three months

Long-term aspirin use before diagnosis also linked to lower odds of diagnosis with distant metastases

Inverse association seen for aspirin users starting use before age 70, but not for those initiating use at or after age 70 years

Colorectal cancer test receipt near target in 2018, with 66.9 percent of adults aged 50 to 75 years up to date with testing

Authors say more nuanced approach needed to understand link between body weight and risk for colorectal cancer

Irinotecan, cetuximab, and vemurafenib improve progression-free survival in BRAF^V600E-mutated colorectal cancer

Adenocarcinomas increasing in most early-onset subgroups; carcinoid tumors increasing more steeply in all age groups