HealthDay - MONDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Interventions tailored to language and culture can significantly boost colorectal cancer screening rates for U.S. minority groups, a new study finds.

AP - Scientists have developed a simple formula that can help find colon cancer patients with certain inherited bad genes — information that can help determine the best course of treatment and identify family members at risk of developing the disease, too.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Scottish researchers say they've developed a method that can better identify people at risk of certain types of hereditary colon cancer, as well as help guide treatment choices for those already diagnosed with colon cancer.

AP - Scientists have developed a simple formula that can help find colon cancer patients with certain inherited bad genes — information that can help determine the best course of treatment and identify family members at risk of developing the disease, too.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- Examining a colon cancer patient's lymph nodes may help doctors decide on the best treatment while helping them avoid unnecessary therapies, a new study shows.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, June 21 (HealthDay News) -- Examining a colon cancer patient's lymph nodes may help doctors decide on the best treatment while helping them avoid unnecessary therapies, a new study shows.

Reuters - Biotechnology company Amgen Inc. said on Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to a "priority review" of the company's application for experimental drug panitumumab as a treatment for colon cancer.

AFP - Hong Kong researchers claim to have found a strong link between colon cancer and arterial disease, Hong Kong's two biggest killers, a statement said.

AFP - US President George W. Bush's new spokesman, Tony Snow, teared up at his first formal White House press briefing, while answering a question related to his battle with colon cancer last year.

Reuters - Elderly patients who undergo removal of an advanced colon cancer should complete at least 5 months of fluorouracil-based chemotherapy, new research suggests. Stopping these drugs any earlier raises the risk of recurrence, and the results are no better than having no chemotherapy at all.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 3 (HealthDay News) -- Physical weakness, treatment complications, and a lack of social and psychological support can keep elderly patients with stage III colon cancer from finishing chemotherapy after surgery, a new U.S. study finds.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Take the right steps and you can turn colon cancer into one of the most preventable malignancies.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- Take the right steps and you can turn colon cancer into one of the most preventable malignancies.

Reuters - Among patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to other areas of the body and who have not been helped by standard chemotherapy, a new drug called panitumumab produces a highly significant improvement in time without worsening of disease, according to data released at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

Reuters - Celebrex, a commonly used painkiller and treatment for arthritis, may help prevent colon cancer in high-risk patients, but it also raises the risk of heart attack and stroke, researchers said on Monday.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer New York, NY (AHN)—New research, in the March 2006 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggests men with high levels of calcium and dairy foods in their diet have a lower risk of colorectal cancer. Dr. Susanna C. Larsson of Karolinska...

Reuters - Men with high levels of calcium and dairy foods in their diet have a lower risk of colorectal cancer, research suggests.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- OsmoPrep tablets (sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate and sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous) have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to cleanse the bowel before a colonoscopy, a test to detect colon cancer.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, March 22 (HealthDay News) -- OsmoPrep tablets (sodium phosphate monobasic monohydrate and sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous) have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to cleanse the bowel before a colonoscopy, a test to detect colon cancer.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - Researchers may have found a way for doctors to use vitamin D to fight colon cancer. Vitamin D is needed to prevent colorectal cancer in its earliest states, but high doses of the vitamin produces large amounts of calcium, which can result in blood...