Colon cancer treatment is personalized based on stage, overall health and tumor characteristics. Early detection and accurate ...

Targeted therapies are a type of medicine used to treat cancer. They work differently than standard chemotherapy. Instead of killing all fast-growing cells or keeping them from dividing, targeted ...

Colonic irrigation cleanses the colon and helps remove harmful toxins from the body. The procedure is performed at such facilities as spas. This typically involves a practitioner administering an ...

This dual-immunotherapy neoadjuvant treatment regimen is mainly intended for patients with resectable stage IIB to III colon ...

While there are several treatment options for colon cancer, not all of them work for all cancer types. Deficient mismatch repair (dMMR) colon cancer is known to be less responsive to chemotherapy than ...

People battling advanced colon cancers might have a new treatment option that could extend their survival, a new trial finds. A combination of two experimental immunotherapy drugs plus standard ...

Qualitative Assessment of Unmet Information Management Needs of Informal Cancer Caregivers: Four Themes to Inform Oncology Practice Adjuvant chemotherapy is used after surgery for stages II and III ...

What defines an elderly patient, and do we adequately assess them in clinical practice? It is a disservice to classify patients based on their temporal age alone, because there are several other ...

After the fasting, the uncomfortable cleanse and a drowsy ride home, it's a relief to have your colonoscopy screening behind ...

The identification of rare genomic alterations in patients with colorectal cancer gives oncologists the opportunity to treat patients who otherwise might not have many options. When Mia Balko, 48, ...