Oncology news

Experts from United European Gastroenterology (UEG) [1], presenting at the European Digestive Cancer Days (EDCD) Conference [2] in Prague today, are calling on European governments to focus their efforts on developing early diagnosis techniques, in order to save thousands of lives from digestive cancers including a more targeted approach to ensure at risk patients don’t ‘slip through the early-detection net’.

The WCRF has just published an extensive report [1] summarising all published studies of the links between specific lifestyle factors and the risk of developing colorectal cancer. This report, which updates those published earlier [2, 3] with the inclusion of newer research, collates results from 99 studies that together include over 29 million adult participants, over 247,000 of whom developed colorectal cancer.

A vaccine that can literally eradicate the majority of cervical cancer cases shows long-term effectiveness in a study published in The Lancet [1].

Scientists have found that carrying fat around your middle could be as good an indicator of cancer risk as body mass index (BMI), according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer today (Wednesday) [1].

A research on 7,000 Italian men, combined with laboratory studies, confirmed that drinking more than 3 Italian-style coffee cups a day reduces prostate cancer risk by more than 50 percent [1].

Women who have taken the oral contraceptive pill are protected from some types of cancer for as long as thirty years according to new research [1] from The University of Aberdeen.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) today issued a clinical practice guideline on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for the prevention of cervical cancer [1]. This is the first guideline on primary prevention of cervical cancer that is tailored to multiple regions of the world with different levels of socio-economic and structural resource settings, offering evidence-based guidance to health care providers worldwide.

Researchers of the Colorectal Cancer research group of Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), led by Dr. Víctor Moreno, and linked to the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Epidemiology And Public Health CIBER (CIBEResp), have issued the first predictive risk model of colon and rectal cancer based on Spanish data that combines genetic and lifestyle information. Their work, published by Scientific Reports, highlights the importance of improving lifestyle to reduce the risk of colon cancer and suggests to use a combination of lifestyle and genetic information to subdivide the population into different groups according to their colon cancer risk, which would fine tune the current screening method.

New research funded by the World Cancer Research Fund International, published in the British Medical Journal, concluded that obesity is linked to 11 cancers.