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News: Colorectal Cancer

Protein’s role in inflammation-related cancer studied

Friday, August 30th, 2019

Investigators are exploring the molecular mechanisms behind the association of chronic inflammation and colon cancer.

Colorectal cancer patients warn against dismissing early symptoms

Friday, August 9th, 2019

Younger patients say colorectal cancer is a disease that doesn’t follow age guidelines, so pay attention to early symptoms.

Mouth microbes and colorectal cancer

Friday, June 7th, 2019

Microbial species in the mouth could be playing a role in colorectal cancer development, according to new research from epidemiologists at VUMC.

New guidelines recommend colonoscopy at 45

Thursday, April 25th, 2019

The American Cancer Society now recommends people at average risk be screened for colorectal cancer via colonoscopy, or another method, starting at age 45, rather than at age 50.

Lighting up colorectal cancer

Monday, March 4th, 2019

Wellington Pham, PhD, and colleagues in Japan, have developed a nanobeacon imaging agent to aid the early detection of colorectal cancer during colonoscopy.

Major grant to bolster research on inflammation-related cancers

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

Cancer Research UK has awarded a 20-million-pound grant (about $26 million U.S.) to a team of international investigators, including Vanderbilt’s James Goldenring, MD, PhD, to study inflammation-related cancers.

Study identifies novel genetic factors for colorectal cancer risk

Wednesday, January 16th, 2019

A large-scale study conducted among East Asians and led by Vanderbilt researchers has identified multiple, previously unknown genetic risk factors for colorectal cancer.

Studying cellular deliveries

Friday, October 26th, 2018

In an article recently published in Cell Reports, James G. Patton, PhD, and colleagues studied how colon cancer cells can secrete long RNAs in carefully regulated ways.

Cancer Moonshot award to help map tumor progression

Thursday, September 27th, 2018

A trans-institutional team of researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt University has received an $11 million Cancer Moonshot grant to build a single-cell resolution atlas to map out the routes that benign colonic polyps take to progress to colorectal cancer.

SMAD4 clue to colon cancer

Friday, July 6th, 2018

A recent study has linked inflammation-driven carcinogenesis in the colon to loss of an important signaling protein called SMAD4.

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