More Gastrointestinal System Cancer News

• Early Morning Colonoscopies May Find More Polyps

  Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Early morning colonoscopies detect more polyps than colon cancer screenings ...

• Blacks at Greater Risk for Colorectal Cancer

  Oct. 26 (HealthDay News) -- New research finds that blacks are at much higher risk ...

• Stem Cells Being Tested to Fight Pancreatic Cancer

  Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- New research is moving scientists closer to their goal of ...

• Stem Cell Research Offers Hope for Colon Cancer Vaccine

  Oct. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Human stem cells may provide a means of creating a ...

• New Classification Proposed for Stomach Cancers

  Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new way to classify stomach cancers could lead to ...

• Younger Women With Colon Cancer Outlive Men

  Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that estrogen or other hormones could ...

• Colonoscopy Beats 'Camera Pill' at Catching Colon Cancer

  July 15 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers had high hopes for a minimally invasive cancer-screening technique ...

• Colorectal Cancer Rates Rising for Under 50 Set

  June 8 (HealthDay News) -- Despite a steady decline in colorectal cancer rates in the ...

• Simple Test Could Detect More Gastrointestinal Cancers

  June 2 (HealthDay News) -- DNA testing of a person's stool can accurately screen for ...

• Weight May Affect Colonoscopy Success

  June 1 (HealthDay News) -- People who are obese are less apt to have thoroughly ...

• Worth of Sigmoidoscopy Screening for Colon Cancer Still Uncertain

  June 1 (HealthDay News) -- Patients checked for colon cancer with a procedure called flexible ...

• Avastin Shows No Benefit Against Early Stage Colon Cancer

  May 30 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer drug Avastin, widely used for lung, breast and ...

• More Living Longer With Advanced Colon Cancer

  May 27 (HealthDay News) -- Over the past 15 years, the average survival rate for ...

• Fingerprints May Vanish With Cancer Drug

  May 27 (HealthDay News) -- The widely used cancer drug capecitabine can cause people to ...

• Gene Screen May Predict Colon Cancer's Return

  May 14 (HealthDay News) -- The first genomic test aimed at predicting colon cancer recurrence ...

• Medicare's 'No' on Virtual Colonoscopy Stirs Expert Debate

  May 13 (HealthDay News) -- Medicare and Medicaid's decision Tuesday not to pay for a ...

• HRT May Protect Women from Colon Cancer

  April 22 (HealthDay News) -- Older women using hormone replacement therapy appear to have a ...

• Charring Meat May Boost Risk of Pancreatic Cancer

  April 21 (HealthDay News) -- You may love your steak well done, but eating burned ...

• Research Takes Aim at Pancreatic Cancer

  April 18 (HealthDay News) -- An active receptor found in certain pancreatic cancers might offer ...