1. Overall survival was significantly greater in the fruquintinib group versus placebo. 2. The majority of adverse events were mild-to-moderate and were slightly more common among patients receiving fruquintinib. Evidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent) Study Rundown: Colorectal cancer is the third-most prevalent cancer in the world and the second leading cause of death worldwide. Patients
U.S. Digestive Health CEO Jerry Tillinger recently joined Becker s to discuss what he thinks will disrupt the gastroenterology industry next - from the rapid gr
micr micro biom affected born by vaginal birth versus a c-section. breast or bottle fed whether or not you took antibiotics for no good reason. it could save lives but rough on the micro biom and whether you eat whole foods or processed and it changes that and it may contribute to colon cancer. bill: disturbing number projections from the american cancer society. in 2023 there will be 153,000 diagnoses of colorectal cancer with nearly 53,000 deaths. that s filling up an mlb baseball stadium. for anybody watching now concerned about this and thinks maybe i need to get checked, what is your advice and the best way to prevent this? well, the temptation is to start colonoscopy screening very early but there is no good data
people and the families that this decision is going to impact those are the people that i have spent most of my life training to be an expert, to be a physician scientist to take care of my job is to understand the science, is to understand the studies that are being kind of quoting and thrown out there that are being cited in these really biased opinions and what i can tell you is that they were cherry picked. so one of the studies mentioned from your privious guest is one from finland, not in this country. another one was from the 1990s and completely ignored the incredible amount of almost 23 years of data that we have to show that mifepristone is extraordinarily safe, that the complication rates and er visits are akin to things like life-saving colonoscopy screening, for example very similar additionally, this idea that scientists agree on when life begins, that s a philosophical question, not so much a scientific question.