A clinical trial suggests that keyhole surgery is an effective way of removing tumors from the colon. Minimally invasive - or keyhole - surgery has various benefits for the patient, such as a shorter hospital stay.
WEDNESDAY, June 29 (HealthDay News) -- People with advanced colon cancer now have an additional chemotherapy option: the oral medication capecitabine.
Landmark data published in this week's prestigious New England Journal of Medicine show that Xeloda® -- an innovative oral chemotherapy -- is an effective alternative to intravenous 5-FU/LV, which has been the foundation of adjuvant treatment for patients with Dukes' C colon cancer for 40 years.
(HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch: Colon cancer; rectal cancer This study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of Avastin in combination with a standard chemotherapeutic regimen as first-line treatment in patients with metastatic colon or rectal cancer.
In the US population, there is a wide ethnic and racial disparity in the risk of developing advanced-stage colorectal cancer and of dying from the disease, researchers report in the medical journal Cancer.
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