A 'broader' look at cardiac CTA images often finds diseases/disorders beyond the heart
... Our interest in this topic developed because we were performing many cardiac CTA examinations, including those for bypass grafting, and we wondered how often we would find unrelated but clinically significant findings in the heart and lungs, said Charles White, MD, senior author of the study. We wanted to know...Diets high in choline may increase risk for colorectal polyps
... Major food sources of choline include red meat, eggs, poultry, and dairy products. Choline is involved in a biochemical process known as one-carbon metabolism. Studies have shown that people with increased intake of other nutrients required for one-carbon metabolism, such as folate, are at a decreased...Folic acid supplements do not appear to reduce risk of colorectal tumors
... Bernard F. Cole, Ph.D., of Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H., and colleagues evaluated the effect of folate for the prevention of new colorectal adenomas (benign tumors, precursors of most colorectal cancers) in persons with a history of these...Gender impacts colorectal cancer progression
... ... Findings from the study were displayed on Monday, June 4 at the an...Low-fat diet does not reduce risk of colorectal cancer
In an article in the February 8 JAMA, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Ph.D., of the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues with the Women's Health Initiative (a study which included nearly 50,000 women) analyzed data from the WHI Dietary Modification Trial to determine the effect of a low-fat eating pattern on risk of colorectal cancer in postmenopausal women. Previous trials examining this a...Radiation, chemotherapy before surgery controls rectal cancer
For patients with rectal cancer, receiving radiation therapy and chemotherapy before surgery to shrink the tumor so it can be more easily removed helps keep the cancer from coming back, according to a study presented October 17, 2005, at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology's 47th Annual Meeting in Denver.... Beginning in 1992, doctors in France enrolled 733 patients suffer...Advances in screening and markers improve early detection of colorectal cancer
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 23, 2007) -- Although colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, when detected early, it has one of the highest cure rates. For this reason, innovative and improved methods to screen for and detect this disease are essential. Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week 2007 (DDW) demonstrates the breadth of technological and...Study reveals aspirin's colorectal cancer prevention mechanism
... "We knew that aspirin can block COX-2 function...An aspirin a day keeps colorectal cancer away
... ... However, the benefits are likely to outweigh the risks in individuals at increased risk o...New data shows once a day LAMICTAL XR is effective in patients with partial epilepsy
... Data from the ARMOR study, an international, multi-...Correlation between bile duct obstruction and ductal cancer found
... Perhaps even more important, the cancers metastized outside the liver (as they frequently do in human patients with advanced bile duct cancer) only in the animals with bile duct obstruction.</p...Black-white life expectancy gap narrows, but remains substantial
... Life expectancy at birth has generally been increasing in the United States since at least the late 19th century. For as long as data have been reported by race/ethnicity, life expectancy of blacks has been lower than that of whites, according to background i...Follow-up endoscopic surveillance in colorectal cancer patients improves survival
... "The results o...Honeydew honeys are better antioxidants than nectar honeys
... Naturally occurring antioxidants are important ingredients of many foods, and keenly sought in many health foods. They are believed to help protect people from diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disorders, neurodegenerative diseases and aging. They operate by mopping up potentially...Slow-release morphine reduces level of intractable cough
... ... Alyn H. Morice, M.D., of the Department of Academic Medicine at the University of Hull and Castle Hill Hospital in East Yorkshire, United Kingdom, and six associates enrolled 27 patients with intractable cough in an eight-week, randomized, double-...New amfAR research grants aim to advance understanding and prevention of rectal HIV transmission
... "Twenty-five years after the first identification of AIDS, the taboos that surround an open discussion of sexual behavior are still haunting us in our efforts to contain this pandemic" said Dr. Johnston. "It is time for us to take an honest and unflinching look at how HIV is spread and...Minorities and colorectal cancer screening: Phone them and they will come
... The study suggests a promising strategy for increasing CRC screening, which may help reduce CRC incidence and death in black men and women, who are at significantly higher risk for both than their white counterparts. Past studies have shown that blacks are less likely to receive CRC screening, which when conducted regularly via three day stool blood te...Health-care delivery contributes to racial disparity in colorectal cancer
... Colorectal cancer is preventable and even curable. Improvements in the sensitivity and specificity of screening tests and in treatment protocols have resu...Darunavir with FUZEON provides HIV patients a better chance to reach undetectable viral load
... However guidelines issued by major health associations such as the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the International AID...Whole-body scans may provide option for diagnosing colorectal cancer
... Colorectal cancer accounts for a large number of tumor-related deaths. Exact and complete information on the stage of the tumor is of great benefit to patients, according to background information in the article. Determining the stage of colorectal cancer often requires a multimodality, multistep imaging approach. Complete "conventional" staging determination requires additional imaging...UCLA cancer researchers develop quality measures for colorectal cancer surgery
... Improving the quality of surgical care for colorectal cancer patients is vital as the number of resections continues to increase in an aging population, said Dr. Clifford Ko, an associate professor of surgery, a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and lead author of the study. About 148,000 people will get colorectal cancer this year alone, and ab...Quality care assessment examines surgical quality for colorectal cancer patients
... Quality of care measures have been developed for many diseases and are used by agencies like the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate the quality of care for a variety of diseases. No regulatory agencies have currently adopted quality of care measures for colorectal cancer surgery, but practice guidelines for this surgery were created by a consensus panel sponso...Sports cheats beware -- new test detects previously undetectable drug
... That has just changed. Research published this week in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry describes a method that can detect synacthen, even though it will only be found in incredibly low concentrations in a person's blood sampl...FDA approves Vectibix to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer
... The FDA approval of Vectibix was based on a progression-free survival endpoint. Ve...Pregnancy and lactation may affect maternal behavior and coping skills
... "It appears that hormonal changes occurring in rats after they nurse their pups may bring about endocrine and neuroendocrine chan...Study finds that vioxx reduces the risk of colorectal polyps
... ] in advance of being published in the journal, Gastroenterology. Extensive data have suggested previously that asp...Rofecoxib significantly reduces the risk of recurrence of colorectal polyps
, the journal for the members of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA). The study, "A Randomized Trial of Rofecoxib for the Chemoprevention of Colorectal Adenomas," is scheduled for publication in December, but was released on-line in August due to the significance of the findings. The manuscript can be found on-line at <A HREF="http://www.gastro.org/user-assets/Documents/13_Medi...Internal body clock dictates timing of different types of stroke
... ... These patients' data had been collected on a stroke register, showing that cerebral infarction, where blood flow to brain arteries is restricted, was the most common type of stroke. The rate was 89 per 100,000 of the popula...Updated International AIDS Society guidelines recommend new goal of undetectable viral load
Basel, Switzerland August 14, 2006 During the world's largest HIV/AIDS congress in Toronto (XVI International AIDS Conference) new guidelines from the influential International AIDS Society (IAS-US panel) have been published supporting important changes for the management of treatment-experienced patients. The guidelines published in JAMA(1) provide clear guidance that physicians should set a...New data demonstrate effectiveness of LAMICTAL (lamotrigine) as adjunctive therapy
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC, August 1, 2006 Data published in today's issue of Pediatrics show that lamotrigine (LAMICTAL) is an effective add-on therapy for the treatment of Primary Generalized Tonic-Clonic (PGTC) seizures in a subgroup of children and adolescents. This is the first published analysis of data from a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial of PGTC seizures focusing o...Aspirin and other NSAIDs may not reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in long-term smokers
... In a large, population-based study comparing risk factors in people with and without colorectal cancer, the researchers found the highest risk of colon cancer to be among long-term smokers of 20 or more years who had...Prostatic irradiation doesn't lead to any appreciable increase in rectal cancer risk
Men who receive radiation therapy for prostate cancer are not at any appreciable increased risk of developing rectal cancer compared to those not given radiation therapy, according to a new study published in the July 1, 2006, issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.... ......New data at ASCO show CAMPTOSAR is key to treating 1st line metastatic colorectal cancer
ATLANTA, June 5 Data presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) demonstrated that CAMPTOSAR (irinotecan HCL injection), when given in the infusional regimen FOLFIRI , provided statistically significant longer progression free survival (PFS) compared to bolus mIFL and CapeIRI , two alternative chemotherapeutic regimens containing CAMPTOSAR used to t...Study: Exercise, diet may protect against colorectal cancer
MADISON - Voluntary exercise and a restricted diet reduced the number and size of pre-cancerous polyps in the intestines of male mice and improved survival, according to a study by a University of Wisconsin-Madison research published May 13 in the journal Carcinogenesis. ...... The study is the first to suggest that a "negative energy balance" - produced by increasing the mice's energy output by...Lobular breast cancer can be managed as ductal cancer
Invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast can be treated with breast conserving surgery (BCT), as is invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), without greater future risk of radical surgical treatment or additional surgeries, according to a new study. Published in the June 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study reveals that when compared to ductal...Bold three-stage brain operation for intractable seizures appears promising
NEW YORK, May 4, 2006--Sadly, none of the treatments for epilepsy--anti-seizure medications, a procedure called vagus nerve stimulation, a special diet --could quell the electrical storms in the young boy's brain. Caused by a rare genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis, the seizures began when he was only 2 months old. By the time he was 5, he was having more than 10 a day. The seizures left h...Patients have high expectations about screening mammography
A substantial proportion of women have beliefs about their personal risk of breast cancer, and expectations about the performance of mammography that are abnormally high or unrealistic, according to a survey conducted at University of Michigan Health Systems in Ann Arbor, Michigan.... ...A survey was administered to women who came to an outpatient clinic for screening mammography. The participant...Researchers discover link between expectancy, visual cues and the desire to smoke
Montreal-- In a study recently published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and the Department of Psychology at McGill University found that when people expect to smoke in the near future, external cues such as watching someone smoke affects their brain more than their level of craving or how long they have gone without a cigarette. .....Jefferson scientists reveal new mechanism that causes spread of colorectal cancer
(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers have known for years that the enzyme MMP-9 plays a key role in the spread of colorectal cancer. Now, scientists at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have found out how the enzyme helps initiate the process, known as metastasis. Their discovery of a new molecular mechanism by which MMP-9 promotes cancer spread may provide a new target at which to aim anti-metasta...Smokers, drinkers and men appear to develop colorectal cancer at earlier ages
Alcohol use, tobacco use and male gender are associated with an earlier onset of colorectal cancer and also with location of tumors, findings that could have important implications for screening, according to a study in the March 27 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....... Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths, according to backgrou...