UI researchers learn more about how exercise affects the colon
... cramps and diarrhea while running,suggesting that colonic activity increases during exercise. However, a rec...adinvestigator. "We expected to see an increase in colonic activity duringexercise, but we found instead that colonic activity changes significantly insurprisi......nical research being presented at AGA showing that colonic tumor cells marked by hereditary defects different...antineoplastic drugs (SAANDs) is over-expressed in colonic neoplasias relative to normal colonic mucosal tissue. This observation may explain in part the selec...Cholesterol drug could lead to new therapy for multiple sclerosis
...cently recognized, may serve as a prophylactic for colonic cancer. "Sometimes the pathways that we think of in one context involve the same characters in different roles," says Steinman. Still, he says, it would be remarkable if statins, used daily by tens of millions of people for one medical condition, pr...3-D virtual colonoscopy is more sensitive than conventional procedure
...7.4 percent of whom were at average risk of having colonic polyps. Overall, virtual colonoscopy detected more...noscopy missed one. "This minimally invasive total colonic examination compares favorably with conventional colonoscopy for detection of clinically relevant le...Study examines risk factors associated with colorectal cancer
...ntification of important risk factors for advanced colonic tumors could inform both risk stratification and development of risk reduction strategies. Few studies have evaluated risk factors for advanced colorectal tumors in asymptomatic individuals, compared risk factors between persons with and without poly...Jefferson researchers discover novel gene profile that may identify colon stem cells
...colon cancer. "Having a genetic signature for the colonic stem cell will give us a tool to investigate the hypothesis that stem cell overpopulation is the key to colon cancer initiation," says Bruce Boman, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Division of Genetic and Preventive Medicine at Jefferson Medical College ...New era of colon screening emerging
...New technologies are becoming available to perform colonic tests in alternative fashions. In a study funded ...nd capsule transmission times. Researchers viewed colonic images in 38 patients with obscure gastrointestinal bleeding, obtained without preparation using Giv...Obese women face higher risk of colorectal cancer
... more were 5.2 times as likely to have significant colonic neoplasia detected during colonoscopy as women with a BMI of 25 or less (considered healthy weight) while controlling for smoking, age, alcohol use and family history of colorectal cancer. Explaining the disparity in the findings between men and wome...Colonoscopy most reliable method for detecting colon cancer
...TC is an imaging technique recently introduced for colonic investigation. Don Rockey (Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA) and colleagues enrolled patients into a study to compare the relative sensitivity of these three techniques. 614 people at risk of colon cancer received ACBE, followed by ...New CAD system detects colon polyps in colons previously obscured by contrast-enhanced fluid
...ithm to find polyps submerged in contrast-enhanced colonic fluid; other CAD algorithms do not yet deal with this problem," said Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health and lead author of the study. The benefits to the patient of having such a system as an option is that fewer polyps ...