A short course of immunotherapy given before surgery eliminated detectable colon cancer in a majority of patients whose tumors lacked a key DNA repair mechanism, according to results published in the ...

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A short burst of immunotherapy before surgery is delivering surprisingly powerful results for a specific type of colorectal cancer. Patients in a UK-led trial who received just nine weeks of ...

Among patients with high-risk malignant colorectal polyps, 19% had residual disease, with rates of 25% in the immediate surgery group vs 9% in the nonoperative management group. The rate of rectum and ...

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At MSK, close to half of the surgeries just for colorectal cancer are done robotically, Dr. Garcia-Aguilar says. A leader in the volume of robotic colorectal surgeries nationwide, MSK performed more ...

Doctors at Mayo Clinic are staying ahead of cancer without surgery. A local woman removed her polyps at Mayo Clinic before they could turn into cancer, without weeks of recovery. The colon is about ...

Colon cancer diagnosis involves colonoscopy, imaging, and blood tests, with staging guiding treatment decisions. Stage 1 treatment typically involves surgery, while stage 2 may include chemotherapy ...

A blood test may help identify which patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver are most likely to benefit ...

ctDNA testing post-surgery identifies high-risk stage 3 colon cancer patients more accurately than traditional staging methods. Detectable ctDNA correlates with a four- to six-fold increased risk of ...

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