According to the Minnesota Cancer Surveillance System, American Indians face a 60 percent higher risk of colorectal cancer and are significantly more likely to die of the disease than their non-Indian counterparts. And while colorectal cancer rates have been falling in other populations, rates among American Indians have continued to rise. Tribal leaders and medical [...]

Researchers at the University of South Carolina have received a five-year, $10.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue studying colon cancer. The sizable grant will be used to fund comprehensive studies focused on finding causes, prevention methods, and effective treatments for colorectal cancer at the university’s Center for Colon Cancer Research [...]

Anesthesiologists at Paris’ St-Antoine University Hospital have found they can reduce a patient’s pain and recovery time after colorectal surgery by infusing local anesthesia directly into the surgical site for the first 48 hours following the procedure. To test the method’s effectiveness, researchers randomized patients receiving colorectal cancer resections at three hospitals. Multi-holed catheters put [...]

Ten years of detailed genetic study and tumor testing has led an international team of researchers to the discovery of a gene marker strongly linked to colon cancer. Researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) Medical School, the U-M School of Public Health, the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Spain, the CHS National Israeli Cancer [...]

Researchers from Aberdeen’s Rowett Research Institute discovered a link between consuming carbohydrates and the presence of a cancer-fighting acid called butyrate. The study showed that a group of men which consumed a low carbohydrate diet of only 24g a day experienced a four-fold drop in the level of a bacteria which is key to butyrate [...]