Assessing the Link Between Acute Diverticulitis & Colorectal Cancer
For a paper published in Disease of the Colon & Rectum, Gregory S. Cooper, MD, and colleagues...
Feb 10, 2021
For a paper published in Disease of the Colon & Rectum, Gregory S. Cooper, MD, and colleagues...
Jan 18, 2021
Colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment is currently hindered by micrometastatic relapse that cannot be removed completely during surgery and is often chemotherapy resistant. Targeted theranostic nanoparticles (NPs) that can produce...
Jan 18, 2021
The colorectal cancer is a serious health problem. The diagnosis of the disease mostly relies on an invasive procedure. A non-invasive diagnostic test such as an immunoassay, may facilitate diagnosis of colorectal cancer. The...
Jan 18, 2021
The Neoadjuvant Rectal (NAR) score is a new surrogate endpoint to be used in clinical trials for early determination of treatment response to different preoperative therapies. The aim is to further validate the NAR-score,...
Jan 14, 2021
There is a paucity of prospective data on the performance of the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this exploratory analysis was to evaluate the feasibility...
Jan 14, 2021
STING-dependent cytosolic DNA sensing in dendritic cells (DCs) initiates antitumor immune responses, but how STING signaling is metabolically regulated in the tumor microenvironment remains unknown. Here, we show that oxidative...
Jan 14, 2021
Primary tumors of the heart are uncommon; even rarer are primary cardiac neuroendocrine tumors. To our knowledge, only two cases have been described to date, both being high-grade tumors. We report a solitary low-grade...
Jan 11, 2021
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and one of the main leading causes of cancer deaths among men worldwide. Rapid uncontrolled growth and the ability to metastasize to other sites are key...
Jan 11, 2021
No cases of late recurrence of colorectal cancer liver metastasis (CRLM) over 10 years have been reported in the literature. A 72-year-old woman had a surgical history of sigmoid colectomy and partial hepatic resections for...
Jan 11, 2021
Toads have high medicinal value and have been used for medicinal purposes since the Tang Dynasty period (7th-10th Century AD). Bufarenogin, an active anti-tumor constituent of toad venom, shows anti-tumor activity. In this...
Jan 7, 2021
Proteolytic enzymes play important roles during tumor development and progression through their ability to promote cell growth or by facilitating the invasion of surrounding tissues. The human genome contains more than 570...
Jan 7, 2021
Despite the long-standing consensus on the importance of tumor size, tumor number and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) levels as predictors of long-term outcomes among patients with colorectal liver metastases (CRLM), optimal...