Colon cancer: Symptoms may include iron deficiency and rectal bleeding
Sedentary behaviour, smoking and alcohol abuse may be responsible for the increasing numbers.
Source: express.co.uk
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India hospital network launched to initiate life-saving colon cancer trial
Cancer surgery experts today launched a network of hospitals across India to support a country-wide clinical trial exploring how giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back. Led by expert cancer specialists in India, supported by Universities of Birmingham and Leeds, FOxTROT-Global is a pilot study, being run from India, in parallel to the on-going FOxTROT2 trial open in the UK and France - allowing experts to look at the feasibility and safety of conducting a subsequent full trial in Indian patients.
Source: devdiscourse.com
Neoadjuvant Oxaliplatin-Fluoropyrimidine Chemo Improves Colon Cancer Outcomes
Six weeks of preoperative oxaliplatin-fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy is safe and effective for operable colon cancer, without increasing perioperative morbidity.
Source: oncologynurseadvisor.com
Chemo before surgery cuts colon cancer relapse risk by 28%
Delivering chemotherapy to colon cancer patients before and after surgery — instead of just after — reduces their risk of recurrence by 28%.
Source: freethink.com
Trial finds chemotherapy before surgery cuts risk of colon cancer relapse
According to the results of a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial, giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back.
Source: webindia123.com