NHS offers preventative bowel cancer screening for patients with Lynch syndrome
In England, around 1,100 cases of bowel cancer are caused by the inherited condition every year
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Tag: bowel cancer
NHS expands home-testing kits to detect bowel cancer earlier
Bowel cancer is currently the third most common type of cancer in England
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New study finds heathy cells ‘push’ cancer cells to resist treatment
Slow-growing cancer cells become more resistant to chemotherapy treatment
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Opdivo plus Yervoy scores NICE backing for certain bowel cancer patients
Immunotherapy combo approved for the treatment of advanced bowel cancer patients with rare MSI-H/dMMR mutations
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MSD’s Keytruda doubles PFS in bowel cancer subset
The ‘game-changing’ results will likely result in a paradigm shift in current clinical practice, researchers said
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Multi-drug approach found to attack resistance in bowel cancer
A new study has shown that triple drug combinations could prevent resistance in many cancer types.
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Emergency hospital visits more likely for deprived bowel cancer patients
Emergency hospital visits are more common among patients with bowel cancer living in the most deprived areas of the country than for those living in affluent regions, research funded by Cancer Research UK has found.
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Research backs halving chemo after bowel cancer surgery
Some patients receiving chemotherapy after surgery for bowel cancer might only need three months of treatment rather than the six months currently given, according to new research published in Lancet Oncology.
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Hospitals failing to test for Lynch syndrome
Hospitals across the UK are failing to test all bowel cancer patients at the time of their diagnosis for a genetic condition called Lynch syndrome, which significantly increases the risk of developing cancer over a lifetime.
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PHE says uptake of bowel cancer screening too low
Public Health England is urging all men and women over the age of 60 to get screened for bowel cancer, after fresh data show over 40 percent are not getting tested, “putting thousands unnecessarily at risk of dying”.
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Data shows ‘dramatic drop’ in UK bowel cancer deaths
The number of people dying from bowel cancer in the UK has dropped more than 30 percent in the last 20 years, show new figures released by Cancer Research UK.
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Bowel scope screening cuts cancer and death rate
A one-off screening test called Bowel Scope cuts the risk of developing bowel cancer by more than one third and could save thousands of lives, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
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