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1. 4. 2019 Global microbial signatures for colorectal cancer
Cancers have long been known to arise due to environmental exposures such as unhealthy diet or smoking. Lately, the microbes living in and on our body have entered the stage as key players: while stomach cancer can be caused by a single bacterial species, Helicobacter pylori, the role that gut microbes play in the development of colorectal cancer – the third most common cancer worldwide – is less clear. To determine their influence, association studies aim to map how the microbes colonizing the gut of colorectal cancer patients are different from those that inhabit healthy subjects.
25. 3. 2019 Can you “catch” cancer?
Billions worldwide are infected with tropical worms. Unsurprisingly, most of these people live in poor countries, kept poor by the effects of worm-related malnourishment. What may surprise many is that worms also cause the majority of cases of some cancers in these countries. Published in Frontiers in Medicine as a special article collection on parasite-associated malignancy [1], new research aims to inform prevention and treatment – and perhaps even turn worms against cancer.
17. 3. 2019 Comprehensive cancer care networks – Test driving the model in southern Czechia
What does an ideal cancer service look like and how can countries/regions make that transformation? A European collaborative project [1] spent two years trying to answer this question. The solution they came up with is now being piloted in the Czech Republic, as Sophie Fessl from Cancerworld reports [2].
Cancer prevention news
Sections: Cancer research | Cancer prevention | Czech oncology | NOP On-line project
Cervical cancer could be eliminated as a public health problem in most countries by the end of the century by rapid expansion of existing interventions, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet Oncology journal [1].
After years of decline, prostate cancer mortality has increased last years in several countries. The late detection of advanced prostate cancer, often due to a lack of awareness, is likely a reflection of this revised trend. Although it is well-known that Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests in population-based screening programmes reduce the prostate cancer mortality rate, the discussion on overdiagnosis and overtreatment continues. A good reason for the European Association of Urology (EAU) to publish a policy paper on this topic [1] and invite European influencers to rediscuss the need for population-based prostate cancer screening programmes at a European level during the European Prostate Cancer Awareness Day (EPAD) 2019 [2].
The project of personalised invitations of citizens to cancer screening programmes was launched in the Czech Republic in January 2014. Women are invited to participate in breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening; men and women are invited to participate in colorectal cancer screening. The project aims to enhance the current cancer prevention programmes, and to increase their participation rates; therefore, personalised invitations are sent to citizens who do not participate in cancer screening programmes in the long term, and thus are at a higher risk of developing cancer.
In January 2014, a project of personalised invitations for cancer screening programmes was launched in the Czech Republic. In particular, citizens are invited to participate in colorectal cancer screening (men and women), as well as breast cancer screening and cervical cancer screening (women). Personalised invitations are aimed at citizens who have not participated in cancer screening programmes in the long term, and therefore are at a higher risk of developing cancer. The project is expected to increase participation rates in Czech cancer screening programmes.
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