Colon Cancer News

June 26, 2025

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May 22, 2025 — A study has uncovered a surprising link between diet, intestinal microbes and the efficacy of cancer ...

Apr. 25, 2025 — Researchers have discovered that expansion of mutant blood cells, a phenomenon linked to aging, can be found in cancerous tumors, and this is associated with worse outcomes for ...

Childhood Exposure to Bacterial Toxin May Be Triggering Colorectal Cancer Epidemic Among the Young

Apr. 23, 2025 — An international team has identified a potential microbial culprit behind the alarming rise in early-onset colorectal cancer: a bacterial toxin called colibactin. Scientists report that exposure to ...

How a Low-Carb Diet Can Drive Colorectal Cancer Development

Mar. 3, 2025 — Researchers have shown how a low carbohydrate diet can worsen the DNA-damaging effects of some gut microbes to cause colorectal cancer. The study compared the effects of three different diets in combination with specific gut bacteria on colorectal ...

Research Challenges Our Understanding of Cancer Predisposition

Feb. 25, 2025 — New findings question assumptions of cancer formation in individuals with the cancer-predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis type 1, and offer hope for a personalized approach to early cancer recognition including for those with similar ...

Asthma and Antibiotic Use May Predict Nasal Polyp Recurrence After Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

Feb. 4, 2025 — The probability of revision sinus surgery including the removal of nasal polyps is higher if the patient has asthma or is on antibiotics at the time of their initial surgery. However, higher age was ...

Study Establishes Link Between Early Side Effects from Prostate Cancer Radiation and Long-Term Side Effects

Feb. 3, 2025 — Men undergoing radiation therapy for prostate cancer who experience side effects early in treatment may face a higher risk of developing more serious long-term urinary and bowel health issues, ...

Predicting How Childhood Kidney Cancers Develop

Jan. 23, 2025 — New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...

Advanced Imaging Uncovers Hidden Metastases in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Cases

Jan. 3, 2025 — A new study has found that many cases of high-risk nonmetastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer may be more advanced than previously ...

The Secret Life of ALAS1: How a Basic Science Discovery Could Pave the Way for Better siRNA Therapies

Dec. 20, 2024 — New findings point to an opportunity to improve therapies that use small RNAs to silence disease-causing genes, potentially including those involved in ...

Scientists Develop Scans That Light-Up Aggressive Cancer Tumors for Better Treatment

Dec. 19, 2024 — Researchers have used a chemical compound to light up treatment-resistant cancers on imaging scans, in a breakthrough that could help medical professionals better target and treat ...

Scientists Identify a Probable Contributor to Weakness of the Aorta in People With Genetic Disorder

Dec. 9, 2024 — Studying the cells of people and genetically engineered mice, scientists say they have uncovered a potential reason why patients with Loeys-Dietz syndrome, an inherited connective tissue disorder, ...

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Common Anticancer Drugs May Offer New Hope to PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome Patients

Mar. 31, 2025 — A new study on the genetic causes of the PTEN Hamartoma Tumour Syndrome (PHTS) has found that inhibitors of the PI3ka pathway, commonly used as ...

Alzheimer's: New Strategy for Amyloid Diagnostics

Nov. 25, 2024 — A research group has investigated how Alzheimer's disease can be diagnosed more reliably in the ...

Children's Gut Bacteria May Hold the Key to Diarrhea Treatment

Nov. 13, 2024 — Diarrhea claims the lives of 500,000 children each year in low- and middle-income countries. Now researchers have linked chronic diarrhea to a specific pattern of gut bacteria, a discovery that could ...

Rare Lung Cancer: Gene Activation Determines Mild or Aggressive Course

Oct. 7, 2024 — Researchers discovered key factors that determine different disease progressions in rare lung ...

NMR-Guided Optimization of Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced siRNA Delivery

Oct. 1, 2024 — siRNA therapies show promise for treating diseases like cancer and genetic disorders, but their effectiveness depends on proper delivery. A recent study found that the method of mixing siRNA with ...

Combination Treatment Improves Response to Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer

Sep. 25, 2024 — Researchers have tested a combination of treatments in mice with lung cancer and shown that these allow immunotherapies to target non-responsive ...

Solving the Side Effect Problem of siRNA Drugs for Genetic Disease Treatment Using Formamide

Sep. 9, 2024 — Small interfering RNA (siRNA) drugs are a class of therapeutic agents that silence specific genes associated with inherited diseases. However, siRNA ...

Promising Treatment for Rectal Cancer Confirmed in Major Study

Aug. 22, 2024 — A new treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer shows favourable results in that surgery can sometimes be avoided completely. It also reduces the risk of recurrence. The method has been confirmed ...

COPD and BPD: Inhalation of Live Lactobacilli Lessens Lung Inflammation and Improves Lung Function

Aug. 22, 2024 — In preclinical models, the inhalation of a mixture of living Lactobacilli bacteria attenuated pulmonary inflammation and improved lung function and ...

Taking a 'One in a Million' Shot to Tackle Dopamine-Linked Brain Disorders

Aug. 12, 2024 — With the help of a tiny, transparent worm called Caenorhabditis elegans, researchers have identified novel players in dopamine signaling by taking advantage of a powerful platform generated via the ...

Scientists Probe Molecular Cause of COVID-19 Related Diarrhea, Revealing Potential Treatments

Aug. 6, 2024 — Working with human stem cells that form a kind of 'mini intestine-in-a-dish,' scientists say they have found several molecular mechanisms for COVID-19-related diarrhea, suggesting potential ...

New Study Shows at-Home Colon Cancer Screening Test Reduces Risk of Colorectal Cancer Death, as Effective as Screening Colonoscopy

July 25, 2024 — A noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test that can be done at home could reduce the risk of colorectal cancer death by 33%, according to a new ...

Bowel Cancer Turns Genetic Switches on and Off to Outwit the Immune System

July 3, 2024 — Bowel cancer cells have the ability to regulate their growth using a genetic on-off switch to maximise their chances of ...

Successful Trial for New Colorectal Cancer Treatment

June 14, 2024 — Results from a new phase 1 trial indicate that immunotherapy could be used to treat the most common form of colorectal cancer, also known as bowel cancer. Consistent responses to immunotherapy have ...

Scientists Uncover Promising Treatment Target for Resistant Brain Cancer

May 20, 2024 — For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy resistance is a big problem. But now, researchers may have moved a step closer to a ...

Researchers Unveil PI3K Enzyme's Dual Accelerator and Brake Mechanisms

Apr. 24, 2024 — The enzyme PI3K plays a critical role in cell migration. Scientists have long understood this function. But researchers have recently unveiled that a subunit of this enzyme also has the ability to ...

Scientists Uncover Key Resistance Mechanism to Wnt Inhibitors in Pancreatic and Colorectal Cancers

Apr. 11, 2024 — A new study reveals why some pancreatic and colorectal tumors resist targeted anti-Wnt drugs and suggests how to overcome it, offering new hope to patients with fully treatment-resistant ...

A Pioneering Way to Target the Culprit Behind a Deadly Liver Cancer

Mar. 14, 2024 — Researchers have translated a cutting-edge tactic for treating genetic disorders into a fresh approach for potentially stymying ...

How Early-Stage Cancer Cells Hide from the Immune System

Feb. 28, 2024 — Researchers found that precancerous colon cells can avoid immune detection by turning on a gene called SOX17, which allows them to become essentially invisible to the immune ...

Stress Influences Brain and Psyche Via Immune System

Feb. 7, 2024 — Chronic stress affects the immune system and the brain. Researchers now show that a particular enzyme found in cells of the immune system enters the brain under stress. In mice, it causes them to ...

'Exhalation' System Improves Symptoms for Most Common Form of Chronic Sinus Infections

Jan. 18, 2024 — An exhalation delivery system that uses a patient's own breath to carry the anti-inflammatory compound fluticasone (EDS-FLU) directly to the sinuses reduced chronic sinus infection (sinusitis) ...

Foundation Laid for Improved Diagnostic Imaging of Brain Tumors

Jan. 3, 2024 — Research team draws up criteria for PET-based examinations of malignant brain ...

A New Mechanism by Which Rotavirus Makes You Sick

Dec. 15, 2023 — Scientists report a new mechanism by which rotavirus induces diarrhea by interfering with the normal absorption of nutrients in the ...

Researchers Reveal Prevalence of Persistent Symptoms in Patients With Microscopic Colitis

Dec. 13, 2023 — A new study examines how multiple factors contribute to the miscommunication and understanding of the digestive disease, microscopic ...

Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy May Hinder Aggressive Type of Colorectal Tumor

Dec. 13, 2023 — Hard-to-detect colorectal pre-cancerous lesions known as serrated polyps, and the aggressive tumors that develop from them, depend heavily on the ramped-up production of cholesterol, according to a ...

Nanoparticle-Delivered RNA Reduces Neuroinflammation in Lab Tests

Dec. 11, 2023 — In mice and human cell cultures, researchers showed that novel nanoparticles can deliver a potential therapy for inflammation in the brain, a prominent symptom in Alzheimer's ...

Reducing Vitamin B5 Slows Breast Cancer Growth in Mice

Nov. 9, 2023 — Researchers have discovered that breast cancer cells expressing a cancer-driving gene heavily rely on vitamin B5 to grow and ...

Antioxidants Stimulate Blood Flow in Tumors

Aug. 31, 2023 — Vitamin C and other antioxidants stimulate the formation of new blood vessels in lung cancer tumors, a new study shows. The discovery corroborates the idea that dietary supplements containing ...

Cluster of Slightly Unhealthy Traits Linked With Earlier Heart Attack and Stroke

Aug. 25, 2023 — Middle-aged adults with three or more unhealthy traits including slightly high waist circumference, blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose have heart attacks and strokes two years earlier than their ...

Tau-PET : Future of Alzheimer's Patients

Aug. 9, 2023 — Alzheimer's disease, one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases, leads to progressive loss of memory and autonomy. It is characterized by the accumulation of neurotoxic proteins in the ...