Colorectal Program News Today

Michael Cecchini, MD, expands on key updates in gastrointestinal cancer from the 2023 ASCO Annual Meeting, including the clinical significance of findings from the PROSPECT and phase 3 PRODIGE 23 trials of perioperative chemotherapy vs selective standard chemoradiation.

Michael Cecchini, MD, Yale Cancer Center medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, is available to discuss several topics during colorectal cancer awareness month.

With March being Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, Kelly Sugihara from the Wyoming Cancer Resource Services is making rounds to educate parts of the state about the importance cancer screenings. With her organization she helps people without insurance to be able to get colorectal, cervical, or breast cancer screenings for free. She says Wyoming is the second lowest in the nation for pre cancer screenings. “We’re at the bottom of the barrel,” Sugihara said. She doesn’t exactly know why,...