05/02/2010 | The Cancer Council has rejected calls for Australia to ditch FOBTs as the screening test for bowel cancer, in favour of colonoscopies.
22/01/2010 | A weekly schedule of docetaxel with cisplatin and 5-FU or with capecitabine in advanced oesophago-gastric cancer has encouraging activity and less toxicity than TCF three times a week, latest results from the ATTAX trial shows.
22/01/2010 | A Cochrane review has confirmed that the duration of 5-FU based chemotherapy in an adjuvant setting for colorectal cancer should not exceed 6 months.
15/01/2010 | Adults with a history of colorectal cancer are at increased risk of developing secondary cancers within the first five years of initial diagnosis, but some patients are at increased risk for up to 10 years, an Australian study finds.
20/11/2009 | Survival after colorectal cancer is poorer in public hospitals compared to private hospitals, research from Queensland has found.
13/11/2009 | Endoscopic surveillance for local recurrence of early colorectal cancer should be routine but monitoring for distant recurrence with CEA tests and imaging will have a much lower yield, Australian oncologists have suggested.
13/11/2009 | Dispensing with formal histopathology for most small polyps may be feasible, after new research finds optical diagnosis is effective in assessing both polyp histopathology and future surveillance intervals.
10/11/2009 | Patients with inflammatory bowel disease on thiopurines such as azathioprine and 6-mercaptopurine are at increased risk of developing lymphoma, but the absolute risk is small, a study finds.
05/11/2009 | Yttrium-90 radioembolisation may be an effective treatment for patients with unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) with good performance status and low disease burden, an Australian study finds.
30/10/2009 | The number of new cases of bowel cancer in men has doubled over the last two decades, the latest figures from the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program show.