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Mass-Mailed Stool Tests Helped Improve Odds of Adherence, CRC Test Return

December 10th 2024

Older adults on Medicare Advantage had improved adherence and odds of a test return when a stool test was mailed to them for screening of colorectal cancer (CRC).

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Rectal Cancer Has Better Short-Term Outcomes With Robotic Abdominoperineal Resection

By Julia Bonavitacola

December 6th 2024

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CRC Incidence Risk Associated With Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness

By Julia Bonavitacola

December 2nd 2024

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Racial, Ethnic Disparities Persist in Mortality for Patients With Early-Onset CRC

By Julia Bonavitacola

November 25th 2024

Innovating Cancer Care Through Equity and AI: Vanderbilt’s Vision

By Maggie L. Shaw

November 21st 2024

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December 24th 2020

NCI-Funded Study Finds Triple Therapy Packs a Punch in Metastic Colorectal Cancer

AJMC Staff

Adding vemurafenib, known to target a mutation affecting 10% of metastatic colorectal cancers, made a big difference.

December 23rd 2020

Study Probes Links Between Mutations, Metastasis in mCRC in China

Allison Inserro

Researchers sought to gain a better understanding of the relationship between genetic mutations in metastatic colon cancer (mCRC), advanced disease, and locations of primary tumors.

December 23rd 2020

Guidance Describes Management of Malignant Colorectal Polyps

Skylar Jeremias

Early detection of colon cancer is key to survival. New guidance advises endoscopists in identifying malignant colorectal polyps and recommendations for surgery.

December 13th 2020

Medicaid Expansion May Result in Earlier Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Study Says

AJMC Staff

The authors wrote that in states that expanded Medicaid health insurance coverage in 2014, there was an increase of early-stage colon cancer diagnoses compared with states that did not implement expansion.

December 9th 2020

AI Helps Determine Which Patients Benefit Most From Colorectal Cancer Treatment

Gianna Melillo

Researchers found the application of FOLFOXai, an artificial intelligence (AI)–based predictor of response to FOLFOX chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), may lead to improved treatment outcomes for some patients with mCRC and other cancers.

November 12th 2020

Impact of Travel Distance on Quality Outcomes in Colorectal Cancer

Aaron C. Spaulding, PhD Shalmali Borkar, MBBS, MPH Osayande Osagiede, MBBS, MPH Jordan J. Cochuyt, BS Riccardo Lemini, MD Nolan Otto, BS Dorin T. Colibaseanu, MD

This study identified characteristics of patients with colorectal cancer who traveled farther for surgery and found that those who traveled tended to stay longer at the hospital.

December 18th 2019

Biomarker Use in Colorectal Cancer

Maggie L. Shaw

Despite a 20% drop in mortality since 2009, colorectal cancer accounted for 9.8% (881,000) of deaths worldwide in 2018 and represents 10.2% of all cancer cases worldwide. It is No. 3 on the list of most prevalent cancers worldwide—1.8 million new cases in 2018—behind only lung cancer and breast cancer.

April 7th 2019

NGS Identifies Survival, Treatment Outcomes for Patients With CRC Genetic Mutations

Laura Joszt, MA

Genetic alternations in colorectal cancer (CRC) are linked to different survival and treatment outcomes, according to a study that used next-generation sequencing (NGS) of tumor DNA. The study was published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

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