When she started chemotherapy for colon cancer, the side effects included a "nuclear implosion" of nausea.
With colon cancer, you see, screening tests save lives at very low risk of harm.
In the case of colon cancer, however, this kind of magical thinking is life threatening.
An accompanying article in the same journal questions whether the study accurately measures colon cancer risk.
Twenty-eight had early colon cancer, 18 had adenomas, premalignant colon tumours and 28 had no disease.
Colorectal polyps, which are precursors to colon cancer, were known to over produce COX-2.
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As in late-stage colon cancer, overall median survival was extended by only a few months.
Data for use of Avastin in breast cancer and colon cancer were also presented.
The result is one of the first examples of personalized medicine in colon cancer.
Everything now was riding on the big colon cancer trial, with results due in May 2003.
But one patient had colon cancer and a number of other complex issues, including heart disease.
The best colon cancer drug out there is a 50-year-old drug called 5FU, Saltz says.
Robson has had successful operations for colon cancer and a malignant melanoma on his face.
Colon cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the United States.
Doctors urge people with a family history of colon cancer to begin screening much earlier.
In 1991, Holovnia learned he had colon cancer, and had to release his piano and bass students.
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Three studies of post-menopausal women show low- fat diets don't prevent heart disease, breast cancer, or colon cancer.
The colon cancer Vectibix did not improve survival in head-and-neck cancer, maker Amgen announced this morning.
Dr Taylor-Robinson stressed that this type of liver cancer is very rare compared to breast and colon cancer.
He suffered mightily for decades and died of related colon cancer at the age of 44 in 1996.
Recentin, for non-small cell lung cancer and colon cancer, will go to the FDA in 2009 or later.
Novartis said that PTK-787 met one pre-planned analysis showing it delayed progression of colon cancer, but failed another.
Since the study was launched, there has been a new standard for treating colon cancer, according to Hoff.
These polyps are not necessarily cancerous, but colon cancer occurs in FAP sufferers more frequently than in other people.
Merck has started randomized Phase 2 trials in 240 patients in colon cancer.
It hopes to eventually use it to treat prostate, breast and colon cancer.
Even nonsmoker Lizzie Middleton, a 65-year-old survivor of lung and colon cancer, agrees.
Studies suggest that virtual colonoscopy with a CT scanner may actually be better than colonoscopy in finding colon cancer.
It has rejected some expensive cancer drugs, including Avastin for colon cancer and Tykerb from GlaxoSmitkline for breast cancer.
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