http://medicineworld.org/news/colonnews.html MedicineWorld.Org brings daily colorectal news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld heart watch news service is the most comprehensive heart watch news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news items. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT en-us http://medicineworld.org/images/colon-cancer.jpg http://medicineworld.org/news/colonnews.html 96 85 http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/unusual-treatment-of-colonic-perforation.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/3-2011/unusual-treatment-of-colonic-perforation.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT Colonoscopy is considered a safe procedure, eventhough complications can occur. The most dreaded of these is iatrogenic perforation. The literature reports perforation rates of 0.03%-0.8% for diagnostic procedures, and a rate of 0.15%-3% for therapeutic procedures. Mechanisms of perforation are the result of either mechanical disruption of the colonic wall (e.g. thermal injury, forced push into a diverticulum, or stretching of the bowel with loops or the slide-by technique) or excessive air insufflation. After perforation, prompt abdominal surgery is often recommended, especially in the last few years, following the introduction of laparoscopic approaches in clinical practice. Nevertheless, conservative therapy is a feasible and effective option for patients who are clinically stable and without peritonism or life threatening signs........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/virtual-colonoscopy-and-teleradiology.html http://medicineworld.org/stories/lead/10-2010/virtual-colonoscopy-and-teleradiology.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT Computed tomography colonography (CTC) otherwise known as virtual colonoscopy is feasible in remote health centers where optimal colonoscopy is limited, as per a research studyin the recent issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology (www.ajronline.org). The study waccording toformed at Fort Defiance Indian Hospital in Fort Defiance, AZ, and Tuba City Regional Health Care Center in Tuba City, AZ, both of which are rural medical centers serving Native American, mainly Navajo, populations. After brief on-site instruction, including performing a CTC examination on a volunteer to train the CT technologists, both sites began performing CTC........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/vaccine-against-colorectal-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2006/vaccine-against-colorectal-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT British scientists have developed a vaccine that stimulates colorectal cancer patients' immune systems to fight malignant cells. In a clinical trial of 67 patients, scientists at the University of Nottingham found that when the vaccines were administered before and after surgery to remove malignant tumors, they helped stimulated immune cell production in up to 70 percent of patients. These results are reported in the November 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/virtual-colonoscopy-more-expensive.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/virtual-colonoscopy-more-expensive.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center scientists have observed that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography (CT) scanner is considerably more expensive than the traditional procedure due to the detection of suspicious images outside of the colon. "Virtual colonoscopy will certainly play a role in the future of colon cancer screening," said gastroenterologist Richard S. Bloomfeld, M.S., M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and a member of the research team. "It is important to understand the implications of findings outside the colon before we advocate wide-spread use of this technology"........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/new-way-to-treat-colon-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/new-way-to-treat-colon-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT Scientists at University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute have discovered a new target for possible future colon cancer therapys a molecule that is implicated in 85 percent of colon cancer cases. These findings were published online Oct. 6, 2006, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. By knocking out that is, genetically disabling a molecule called C-Terminal Binding Protein (CTBP) scientists were able to rescue zebrafish from the effects of a mutation in the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) gene........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/scientists-stop-colon-cancer-growth-in-mice.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/10-2006/scientists-stop-colon-cancer-growth-in-mice.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT Scientists from Texas were able to stop the growth of colon cancer in mice by blocking just one enzyme. They say that this is a big step against conquering cancer. Even though this was an experiment on mice, these scientists hope that their findings might soon find its way to human cancers including colon cancer........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2006/curry-and-onions-may-prevent-colon-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/8-2006/curry-and-onions-may-prevent-colon-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT A small but informative clinical trial by Johns Hopkins researchers shows that a pill combining chemicals found in turmeric, a spice used in curries, and onions reduces both the size and number of premalignant lesions in the human intestinal tract. In the study, reported in the recent issue of Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, five patients with an inherited form of premalignant polyps in the lower bowel known as familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) were treated with regular doses of curcumin (the chemical found in turmeric) and quercetin, an antioxidant in onions, over an average of six months. The average number of polyps dropped 60.4 percent, and the average size dropped by 50.9 percent, as per a team led by Francis M. Giardiello, M.D., at the Division of Gastroenterology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Marcia Cruz-Correa, M.D., Ph.D., at Johns Hopkins and the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine........ ]]> http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/6-2006/suggest-your-news-item-to-medicineworld.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/avastin-and-taxol-for-breast-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/3-2006/avastin-and-taxol-for-breast-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2006/pharmacogenomics-for-colorectal-cancer-treatment.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/1-2006/pharmacogenomics-for-colorectal-cancer-treatment.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/merry-christmas-to-all-our-readers.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/merry-christmas-to-all-our-readers.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/test-for-patients-with-colorectal-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/test-for-patients-with-colorectal-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/polyp-detection-software.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/12-2005/polyp-detection-software.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/preventing-bowel-cancer-in-high-risk-families.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/preventing-bowel-cancer-in-high-risk-families.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/adiponectin-and-risk-of-colon-cancer.html http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/11-2005/adiponectin-and-risk-of-colon-cancer.html Wed, 16 Mar 2011 05:11:59 GMT