Gastroenterology
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Second Round of Fecal Testing Reveals Fewer Cancers
Major Finding: The positive predictive value for colorectal cancer was halved, from 8% in a first round of fecal testing to 4% in the second round...
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VEGF-Targeting Cancer Drugs Raise Risk of Fatal Side Effects
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Primary GIST Carries Poorer Prognosis When Outside GI Tract
Major Finding: The 10% of patients whose primaries were outside the gastrointestinal tract had a 28% increased risk of death after adjustment for...
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Colonoscopy With Adenoma Removal Cut Colorectal Cancer Deaths By 53%
Major Finding: After a median follow-up of 16 years, colorectal cancer mortality was 53% lower in patients who had undergone colonoscopy with...
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Fecal Immunochemical Test Found Cancers, Missed Precancerous Adenomas
Major Finding: In the intention-to-screen analysis, colorectal cancer was detected in 0.1% of patients assigned to screening by colonoscopy and...
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FDA Tracks Fake Avastin to Foreign Supply Distributed in U.S.
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Prophylactic Semuloparin Cuts Rate of VTE in Cancer Patients
Major Finding: VTE occurred in 1.2% of cancer patients taking semuloparin, which was significantly lower than the 3.4% rate in the placebo group....
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Pancreatic Cancer Risk Not Confined to IPMN Target Cyst
Major Finding: Overall, 3.2% of patients were found to have pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a region of the gland separate from the...
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Lynch Syndrome Linked to Breast, Pancreatic Cancers
Major Finding: Lynch syndrome increases the risk of breast cancer 4-fold, and the risk of pancreatic cancer 11-fold.
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Gene Signature Predicts Response to Esophagogastric Cancer Therapy
Major Finding: An 86-gene signature in pretreatment tumor tissue discriminated between early PET responders who had a radiologic response at the...
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Demand for Screening Colonoscopy Down During Recession
Major Finding: During the recent recession (December 2007 to June 2009), screening colonoscopy use declined at a rate of 68.9 fewer colonoscopies...