Sentences with phrase «colon cancer did»

A history of colon cancer doesn't always prevent you from getting term life insurance.

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But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Why do you think the Canadian PM Danny Williams went to the US for his heart Surgery in 2010 or Canadian Mountain - bike enthusiast Suzanne Aucoin who had to fight more than her Stage IV colon cancer.

I found nothing in my own literature review to contradict Cochrane, and more evidence that avoiding simple sugar doesn't affect dental health, colon cancer, attention deficit disorder, dementia, depression, other cancers and even obesity.

We know that walnuts are FODMAP Friendly approved, but did you know that recent research has also indicated eating walnuts may change gut bacteria in a way that suppresses colon cancer.

Dietary fiber does more than contribute to what we delicately refer to as «regularity» — it also aids in digestion and can play a role in preventing heart disease and colon cancer, among other conditions.

Studies done with animals show that acrylamide in the diet increases the risk of developing several different types of cancer, including stomach and colon cancer and don't get me started on the salt levels.

Even after battling colon cancer for the better part of last year, Hinchey, with his trademark Fonzie - do, looked fit enough for at least another two or three terms.

Traditionally, scientists doing similar work would try to link particular foods to particular diseases; for example, it has been believed for a long time that high - fiber foods reduce the risk of colon cancer, whereas saturated fats increase the risk of heart disease.

Gastroenterologist Liz Broussard says although she could make five times as much money in clinical practice, this would probably mean «doing colonoscopies eight hours a day,» and she finds her work on a colon cancer vaccine much more inspiring.

Now Vermeulen's team has found that all colon cancer cells may have the potential to revert to stem cells and that whether they do depends on their environment.

Does the location of colon cancer — left or right side — matter for survival?

These findings suggest that «excess fat reduction did not protect mice from colon cancer progression and liver dysplastic lesion... even though these mice had improved blood glucose and leptin,» according to the researchers.

«Currently a majority of patients undergo colon resections for large polyps that don't harbor any cancer cells, which means in many cases a person's colon is being removed for noncancerous reasons, based on subjective criteria,» said lead study author Emre Gorgun, MD, FACS, FASCRS, a staff surgeon in the department of colorectal surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio.

«We really didn't have good data on SBAs so we've been treating the tumors as if they were colon cancers and we really need to start treating them based on their unique properties.»

More importantly, though, they found about a two-fold higher PD - L1 expression level for gastroesophageal cancers compared to right - side colon cancers but did not find such a marked difference between those tumors and SBAs.

Normal human colon cells, kidney cells, lung cancer cells and two strains of colon cancer cells didn't respond to the bacteria.

Xu and colleagues don't know all the details of how S. gallolyticus promotes colon cancer growth.

Three types of colon cancer cells grew faster, producing about 50 to 60 percent more cells within 24 hours, with the bacteria than they did when cultured with no bacteria or with a harmless, milk - fermenting bacterium called Lactococcus lactis.

Cantley's lab and collaborators found that large doses of vitamin C did indeed kill cultured colon cancer cells with BRAF or KRAS mutations by raising free radical levels, which in turn inactivate an enzyme needed to metabolize glucose, depriving the cells of energy.

Without the Ludwig money, the Hopkins group would not have been able to do the cancer genetics studies they're famous for, he notes — for example, the duo has used exome surveys to identify genes associated with colon and breast cancers.

When the team turned the gene on in a set of colon cancer cells and injected them into mouse spleens, the cells spread into the animals» livers; cells that didn't make the L1CAM protein stayed put.

People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Ccancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Ccancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer CCancer Center.

Similar types of reminders have been done with other preventive services such as colon and breast cancer screenings and flu shots.

Did my great - grandmother die of stomach or colon cancer?

Clinical trials are currently trying to do just this in multiple cancer types, but this is the first study that has shown that it might also work for colon cancer.

Once formed, many of these experimental tumors spread to the liver, just like human colon cancers often do.

Some studies have detected differences in the types of gut bacteria in obese and thin people, for example, while others have shown that hunter - gatherers harbor more diverse gut bacteria than do people in the industrialized world — a difference that may protect preagricultural communities from Crohn's disease and colon cancer.

When these genes don't work properly, they can lead to cancer - promoting mutations and result in a colon tumor riddled with 1000 or more mutations, 10 to 100 times the usual number.

The relationship between B. wadsworthia abundance and colon cancer risk did not hold true for non-Hispanic whites, however.

Currently, testing for Lynch syndrome genes is generally only done when someone has a personal or family history of colon or uterine cancer.

«Colon cancer, for example, is heavily driven by diet, and we don't see much colon cancer in Colon cancer, for example, is heavily driven by diet, and we don't see much colon cancer in colon cancer in dogs.

Haruo Ohtani and colleagues at the Kitasato University School of Medicine in Japan publish a landmark study showing that the presence and location of CD8 + tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) correlates with prognosis in colon cancers, specifically that the accumulation of CD8 + T cells within the tumor predicted improved patient survival, whereas accumulation of the same cells in the tumor periphery did not correlate with survival.

We have found that the initiation of pancreatic cancer does not follow the classic paradigm seen in colon cancer where loss of a tumor suppressor gene initiates tumorigenesis and then acquisition of an oncogene promotes tumor formation.

The oncologist was blunt: Stefanie Joho's colon cancer was raging out of control and there was nothing more she could do.

Despite a large amount of work that has concentrated on understanding colon tumor formation, we still do not know the full complement of molecular lesions that are individually necessary (and together sufficient) to cause colorectal cancer.

Few people relish the idea of having a colonoscopy, but they do it because it's effective for detecting colon cancer and other serious diseases when they are treatable.

Radiation therapy is less common in colon cancer, but is sometimes used to treat rectal cancer, as the rectum does not move as much as the colon.

Drew Long was an athlete, college basketball coach and father of three young girls who did not expect to face colon cancer at his age.

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After being diagnosed with colon cancer, Lempert was undergoing chemotherapy when his doctor did genetic testing and found that he had a genetic predisposition to his disease.

But did you know that certain types may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and colon cancer?

Thanks to the practice of hara hachi bu, which means «eat until you are eight parts (or 80 per cent) full», people in Japan are less likely to get breast or colon cancer and consume an average of 840 fewer kilojoules per day than Westerners do.

Finally, yet another phase 3 study — albeit one with less encouraging results — found that the monoclonal antibody drug cetuximab (Erbitux) did not aid people with (potentially curable) early - stage colon cancer if they carried the normal form of the KRAS gene.

Men with a false - positive prostate cancer screening were at least 22 percent more likely to have future colon cancer screenings compared to men who did not have an inaccurate positive test result.

Colonoscopy may be getting all the attention as the preferred way to screen for colon cancer, but a tried - and - true method that doesn't require a hospital visit (or as much discomfort) may be just as effective

But if calcium supplements do boost the risk of polyps, «this has important public health implications» for colon cancer prevention and screening, the study authors concluded.

«University of California researchers estimate 250,000 cases of colon cancer and 350,000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented worldwide by increasing intake of vitamin D. Sunlight spurs production of vitamin D in the skin, and people who don't get much sun exposure tend to have lower levels of the vitamin.»

«When you're deciding whether we should recommend screenings for colon cancer, you consider the fact that a colonoscopy is a very unpleasant procedure; no one would do it voluntarily except that we know it saves lives,» Dr. Weinstock says.

If those materials do nt reveal anything useful, ask for a pathology or autopsy report from the hospital where your relative died, says Marc Brand, MD, surgical director of the Sandra Rosenberg Registry for Heredity and Familial Colon Cancer at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.