June 8, 2017August 24, 2022
Clinical Trial to Test Mekinist as Combo Therapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Patients

The MEK inhibitor Mekinist (trametinib) is to be tested in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) — or Opdivo plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) — in colorectal cancer ... Read more
June 6, 2017
Certain Colon Cancer Patients May Need a Shorter Chemotherapy Course, International Study Finds

Certain patients who underwent surgery for lymph-node positive colon cancer (stage 3) may require only three months of chemotherapy after surgery ... Read more
June 1, 2017June 1, 2017
Binimetinib Triple Combo to Be Tested in Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer Patients

The MEK inhibitor binimetinib will soon be tested in combination with Opdivo (nivolumab) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) in colorectal cancer patients ... Read more
May 30, 2017
PCM-075 Proves Safe as Treatment for Colon, Other Cancer Types, Phase 1 Trial Shows

Trovagene’s PCM-075 therapy for several blood cancers and solid tumors, including colon cancer, proved safe in a Phase 1 clinical ... Read more
May 25, 2017May 25, 2017
FDA Approves Merck’s Keytruda for Colorectal, Other Solid Cancers with Specific Genetic Feature

Colorectal cancer patients with unresectable or metastatic tumors bearing a genetic feature — microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) — ... Read more
May 23, 2017
Increased Colon Cancer Risk in Overweight Boys Reversed by Slimming Down, Danish Study Finds

Overweight boys have a higher risk of developing colon cancer in adulthood, but if they lose the extra pounds by ... Read more
May 18, 2017May 18, 2017
Stage IV Colorectal Cancer Survivor Updates Microsatellite Stable CRC Clinical Trial Finder

Tom Marsilje, who survived stage IV colorectal cancer (CRC), has joined forces with New York-based Fight Colorectal Cancer to help patients search for ... Read more
May 16, 2017
Colon Cancer Coalition Partnering with Olympus to Try to Increase the Disease’s US Screening Rate

The Colon Cancer Coalition, a nonprofit organization that encourages grassroots efforts to promote colon cancer awareness and screening, is partnering ... Read more
May 11, 2017
Researchers Take Aim at Early-stage Colon Cancer by Working on New Endoscope Device

A new European project aims to develop an innovative endoscope device that can detect and diagnose colorectal cancer in its early ... Read more
May 9, 2017
Online Survey Shows What Lifestyle Changes People Can Make to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

People who eat healthy, exercise, and do not smoke are less likely to report a personal history of colorectal cancer ... Read more
May 4, 2017May 4, 2017
RLR Agonists Seen to Promote Immune Response Against Colon Cancer Cells in Early Study

Small molecule compounds known as RLR agonists, being developed by Kineta to treat colon cancer, were seen to kill cancer ... Read more
May 2, 2017May 2, 2017
New MIT Mouse Model Using CRISPR Technology Could Speed Up Colon Cancer Research

MIT researchers using the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing and organoid technology have developed a new mouse model with a cancer that ... Read more

February 10, 2015February 10, 2015

Researchers Reveal the Mechanism Behind Targeted Cancer Therapy Drug Resistance

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently published in the journal Nature Genetics their findings on a protein known as YAP and its role in the development of ... Read more

February 9, 2015February 9, 2015

Study Helps Understand Stem Cell Regulation in Intestinal Cancer

A research team led by Dr. Jorge Moscat, PhD., program director of the Cell Death and Survival Networks Program at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), has made an important discovery ... Read more

February 6, 2015February 6, 2015

Colorectal Cancer Patients Who Smoke Have Higher Risk of Death

A new study entitled “Active Smoking and Mortality Among Colorectal Cancer Survivors: The Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort” reports that colorectal cancer survivors who smoke cigarettes have double risk ... Read more

February 4, 2015February 4, 2015

Cytotoxic T Cells Indicate Favorable Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer

A research team from Heidelberg and Dresden has found a connection between increased levels of TNF alpha in tumor tissue and an increased number of activated cytotoxic T cells that ... Read more

February 3, 2015

FOXFIRE And FOXFIRE Global Finish Colorectal Cancer Patient Enrolment

Sirtex Medical Limited recently announced they completed patient enrolment in two large clinical studies: FOXFIRE and FOXFIRE Global. These two trials are evaluating a combined approach of liver radiation using SIR-Spheres ... Read more

February 2, 2015February 2, 2015

MicroRNA Biomarkers To Identify Colon Cancer Metastases

A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute by Baylor Research Institute investigators has identified novel metastasis-specific microRNA signatures in samples of primary colorectal cancers that ... Read more

January 30, 2015January 30, 2015

High-Quality Cancer Care Erases Racial Disparities in Colon Cancer Survival,

A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has demonstrated that the gap between African-American colon cancer patients’ survival and white patients can be reduced upon the delivery ... Read more

January 29, 2015January 29, 2015

Colorectal Cancer Metastasis Associated With Liver Metabolic Processes

Recent findings published in Cell by Rockefeller researchers have shown that metabolic processes occurring during liver metastasis of colorectal cancer can be crucial to activate starving transient cancer cells, allowing ... Read more

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

New Strategy for Ras-Associated Colon Cancer Treatment

Colon cancer is one of the three highly fatal cancers caused by a protein called Ras. Professor Dimitrios Stamou, head of a multidisciplinary team in bio-nanotechnology and nanomedicine at University ... Read more

January 27, 2015January 27, 2015

Hypertension and Proteinuria in Bevacizumab-Treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Patients

In a recent study titled “Correlation of Hypertension and Proteinuria with Outcome in Elderly Bevacizumab-Treated Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer”, published in PlosOne, a team of Spanish researchers designed a ... Read more

January 26, 2015January 26, 2015

Study Reveals Protein Kinase C Role in Colon Cancer

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine made a surprising discovery that is published ahead of print in the prestigious journal Cell. The team found that a set ... Read more

January 23, 2015January 23, 2015

Trovagene Collaboates With Genomac To Test Colorectal Cancer Platform

Trovagene, Inc. has announced it will collaborate with the Genomac Research Institute, Prague, to test Trovagene’s Precision Cancer Monitoring equipment in early identification of gene mutations rendering lung and colorectal ... Read more

Clinical Trial to Test Mekinist as Combo Therapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Patients

Certain Colon Cancer Patients May Need a Shorter Chemotherapy Course, International Study Finds

Binimetinib Triple Combo to Be Tested in Microsatellite Stable Colorectal Cancer Patients

PCM-075 Proves Safe as Treatment for Colon, Other Cancer Types, Phase 1 Trial Shows

FDA Approves Merck’s Keytruda for Colorectal, Other Solid Cancers with Specific Genetic Feature

Increased Colon Cancer Risk in Overweight Boys Reversed by Slimming Down, Danish Study Finds

Stage IV Colorectal Cancer Survivor Updates Microsatellite Stable CRC Clinical Trial Finder

Colon Cancer Coalition Partnering with Olympus to Try to Increase the Disease’s US Screening Rate

Researchers Take Aim at Early-stage Colon Cancer by Working on New Endoscope Device

Online Survey Shows What Lifestyle Changes People Can Make to Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

RLR Agonists Seen to Promote Immune Response Against Colon Cancer Cells in Early Study

New MIT Mouse Model Using CRISPR Technology Could Speed Up Colon Cancer Research