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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Phase II Study of Ipilimumab, Nivolumab, and Panitumumab in Patients With KRAS/NRAS/BRAF Wild-Type Microsatellite Stable Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is increasingly ...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Colorectal cancer often spreads to the liver, requiring prolonged chemotherapy. But now, doctors are turning to hepatic artery infusion. This therapy delivers ...

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 ...

Colon cancer can be found in a few ways, including a digital rectal exam and a fecal occult blood test. There is also the option of using devices in a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. There is also a ...

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.

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 ...