GI Oncology
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Colorectal cancer risk increased with bariatric surgery
Major finding: The risk of colorectal cancer increased by 60% among obese patients, a mean of 7 years after bariatric surgery but was only...
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Esophageal cancer deaths down for blacks, up for whites
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Cigna to require counseling for some genetic tests
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'Clinical equipoise' seen for surgical approaches to early rectal cancer
Major finding: Compared with radical resection, local resection was associated with a lower risk of perioperative mortality (rate ratio, 0.31),...
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Should colonoscopy be the test of choice for CRC screening?
From the AGA Journals
FIT sensitivity varies by lesion type, location
Major finding: Fecal immunochemical testing of a sample of asymptomatic adults demonstrated sensitivity rates for nonadvanced adenomas, advanced...
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Aspirin cuts risk of BRAF wild-type colorectal cancer
Major Finding: The incidence of BRAF wild-type colorectal cancer was significantly lower for adults who used aspirin regularly (30.5 per 100,000...
Conference Coverage
Imatinib rechallenge improves PFS in GIST, but not for long
Major finding: Progression-free survival of patients with advanced GIST was 1.8 months following imatinib rechallenge, compared with 0.9 months...
Conference Coverage
Chemoimmunotherapy, chemoradiotherapy add no survival in pancreatic cancer
Major finding: Median overall survival was 7.9 months for gemcitabine and capecitabine alone, 6.9 months for gemcitabine and capecitabine followed...
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EET and esophagectomy yield similar cancer-free survival
Major finding: No significant differences were seen between the groups with respect to 2-year esophageal cancer-free survival (93.5% and 89.6% in...