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 ...

Colon cancer can be found in a few ways, including a digital rectal exam and a fecal occult blood test. There is also the ...

Serial circulating tumor DNA analysis can demonstrate rapid clonal dynamics that evolve during response and resistance to both standard chemotherapy and targeted therapy of BRAF-mutant colon cancer ...

Neoadjuvant therapy for patients with metastatic colon cancer with single-organ liver or lung lesions was associated with improved overall survival in comparison with adjuvant therapy, according to ...

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 ...

Colorectal cancer often spreads to the liver, requiring prolonged chemotherapy. But now, doctors are turning to hepatic artery infusion. This therapy delivers chemo directly into the liver, and that, ...

Stage 4 colon cancer is considered advanced: cancer has spread beyond your colon to distant organs. Treatment may involve a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, or ablation.

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 ...

Neoadjuvant approaches for colon cancer have different considerations compared with rectal cancer because of the differences in surgical approaches, higher compliance to adjuvant therapy in colon ...

Suicide gene therapy consists of introduction into tumor cells of a non-mammalian gene encoding an enzyme (such as cytosine deaminase) that converts a non-toxic prodrug (5-fluorocytosine) into a ...

Better out than in, they say? At least that seems to be the general consensus amongst the who’s who of the wellness community—where colonics seem to be all the rage. If you’re not familiar with the ...