Cancer Prevention & Screening

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1112+ words) A 70-year-old Highland man is urging people to take up the bowel cancer screening test after being diagnosed with the disease. John Sweetman, who underwent robotic-assisted surgery earlier this year at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness followed by chemotherapy, has praised…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (541+ words) A protein long considered a quiet passenger in the bloodstream has been caught playing a far more sinister role in liver cancer....

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (836+ words) CAR T-cells developed at CU Anschutz will target two pathways that help colorectal tumors grow and evade the immune system AURORA, Colo., Sept. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted permission for investigators at the University of Colorado Anschutz…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (539+ words) A mitochondrial enzyme long known simply as a workhorse of cellular energy production has been revealed as a powerful suppressor of colorectal cancer, one of the most common and deadly malignancies worldwide....

2+ day, 16+ min ago   (90+ words) For decades, the vast stretches of the human genome that do not encode proteins were dismissed as evolutionary baggage, a biological wasteland dismissed with the shorthand of “junk DNA.” A comprehensive new review published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology makes…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (795+ words) Obesity has long been recognized as one of the most potent modifiable risk factors for colorectal cancer, but the precise cellular choreography by which excess body weight sets the stage for malignancy has remained largely hidden from view....

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (99+ words) The cloudy fluid that accumulates in the abdomen of patients with peritoneal metastasis has long been viewed as little more than a symptom of advanced disease, a sign that cancer has seeded the lining of the abdominal cavity and that…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (274+ words) COLORECTAL cancer research has identified a core transcriptional regulatory circuitry involving MYC, ETS2 and FOXP1 that controls cancer type specific super enhancer activity and supports expression of key genes. The study reported that the master transcription factor MYC actively regulated super enhancer…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (55+ words) Scientists have identified a distinct population of epithelial cells that appears to drive some of the most dangerous features of colorectal cancer, offering a potential new target for treating one of the world’s deadliest malignancies. In a sweeping multi-omics study…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1706+ words) When you have blood drawn during a routine doctor’s visit, some of the markers that get tested could hold unexpected clues to how likely you are to develop colorectal cancer at a young age, new research suggests. Related video above:…...