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Colorectal Cancer

:: Jun-Jul 2008


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Highlighted Articles

Repeated Past Articles:

Vitamin D and Sunlight: Strategies for Cancer Prevention and Other Health Benefits. (Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2008) “Recent studies suggested that women who are vitamin D deficient have a 253% increased risk for developing colorectal cancer, and women who ingested 1500 mg/d calcium and 1100 IU/d vitamin D3 for 4 yr reduced risk for developing cancer by >60%.”

A 22-year Prospective Study of Fish, n-3 Fatty Acid Intake, and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Men. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008) “CONCLUSIONS: Our results from this long-term prospective study suggest that intakes of fish and long-chain n-3 fatty acids from fish may decrease the risk for colorectal cancer.”

Clinical Guidelines

2005 Update of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Practice Guideline Recommendations for Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: Guideline Summary (2006)

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Patient Guide: Follow-Up Care for Colorectal Cancer (2006)

American Society of Clinical Oncology - Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: 2005 Update of an American Society of Clinical Oncology Practice Guideline (2005)

ASGE guideline: colorectal cancer screening and surveillance. (2006)

Guidelines Issued for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: Colorectal Cancer Screening (2008)

NCCN - Colon and Rectal Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients ø Version IV, February 2005

NGC - American Society of Clinical Oncology recommendations on adjuvant chemotherapy for stage II colon cancer. (2004)

NGC - ASGE guideline: the role of endoscopy in the diagnosis, staging, and management of colorectal cancer. (2005)

NGC - Colon cancer. (2005)

NGC - Colorectal cancer. (2004)

NGC - Colorectal cancer screening. (2006)

NGC - Cross-sectional imaging in colorectal cancer. (2006)

NGC - Follow-up of patients with curatively resected colorectal cancer. (2004)

NGC - Guidelines for the management of colorectal cancer. (2001)

NGC - Initial management of abnormal cervical cytology (Pap smear) and HPV testing. (2006)

NGC - Practice parameters for colon cancer. (2004)

NGC - Practice parameters for the management of rectal cancer (revised). (2005)

NGC - Practice parameters for the surveillance and follow-up of patients with colon and rectal cancer. (2004)

NGC - Prevention and screening of colorectal cancer. (2004)

NGC - Referral guidelines for bowel cancer. (2002)

NGC - SCREENING FOR COLORECTAL CANCER

NGC - Surveillance and management of groups at increased risk of colorectal cancer.

NGC - The use of preoperative radiotherapy in the management of patients with clinically resectable rectal cancer. (2004)

NGC - Use of irinotecan in the second-line treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma. (2004)

NGC - Use of raltitrexed (Tomudex) in the management of metastatic colorectal cancer. (2005)

NICE - Colorectal (CSG) (2004)

Screening and Surveillance for the Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer and Adenomatous Polyps, 2008: A Joint Guideline from the American Cancer Society, the US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer, and the American College of Radiology (CA Cancer J Clin 2008)

SIGN - Management of colorectal cancer (2003)

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Food: Meat

Meat Consumption and Risk of Colorectal Cancer (JAMA. 2005) "Context Consumption of red and processed meat has been associated with colorectal cancer in many but not all epidemiological studies; few studies have examined risk in relation to long-term meat intake or the association of meat with rectal cancer. Ä Conclusions Our results demonstrate the potential value of examining long-term meat consumption in assessing cancer risk and strengthen the evidence that prolonged high consumption of red and processed meat may increase the risk of cancer in the distal portion of the large intestine."


Supplements - Nutrition

Potential role of flavonoids in the prevention of intestinal neoplasia: a review of their mode of action and their clinical perspectives. (Int J Gastrointest Cancer. 2005) "Intestinal neoplasia (adenomas and carcinomas) can possibly be prevented by a diet rich in vegetables and fruits, treatment with aspirin and other nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, and early colonoscopic removal of adenomas. Ballast, fiber, and secondary plant products could play a major role in colon cancer prevention.Recently there has been much experimental work in vitro and in vivo about flavonoids as inducers of bioprevention. Flavonoids are secondary plant products with a wide variety of beneficial biological properties, and they possess anticarcinogenic, antimutagenic, and antioxidative modes of actions. Flavonoids are the main components of a healthy diet containing fruits and vegetables and are concentrated especially in tea, apples, and onions. Ä In models of intestinal polyposis, flavonoids suppress polyp formation. Some epidemiological studies show a protective effect of flavonoids contained in fruits, vegetables, and tea.Flavonoid mixtures of tea origin supplied as nutritional supplements could be studied as a new way of bioprevention of intestinal neoplasia (colon adenomas and cancer). "

 

Diagnosis, Imaging, and Screening

 

General Information
Risk Factors

Consumption of trans-Fatty Acid and Its Association with Colorectal Adenomas (American Journal of Epidemiology 2008) “These results suggest that consumption of high amounts of trans-fatty acid may increase the risk of colorectal neoplasia, and they provide additional support to recommendations to limit trans-fatty acid consumption.”

 

Risk Reduction

 

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