02/03/2010 | Endoscopic resection can accurately stage and definitively treat patients with Barrett’s high-grade dysplasia or early adenocarcinoma, Australian gastroenterologists report.
03/02/2010 | Music, as 17th century playwright William Congreve stated, has charms to soothe the savage breast, but it does nothing to improve the pain experienced by unsedated patients having a sigmoidoscopy.
03/02/2010 | The Cancer Council has rejected calls for Australia to ditch FOBTs as the screening test for bowel cancer, in favour of colonoscopies.
20/01/2010 | Adults with a history of colorectal cancer are at increased risk of developing secondary cancers within the first five years of initial diagnosis, but some patients are at increased risk for up to 10 years, an Australian study finds.
09/12/2009 | The PPI esomeprazole (Nexium) has gained TGA approval for prevention of rebleeding in patients following therapeutic endoscopy for acute, bleeding gastric or duodenal ulcers.
25/11/2009 | Large liver metastases from colorectal cancer may now be shrunk to a size where they can possibly be surgically resected, researchers say.
25/11/2009 | Constipation may be associated with an increased risk of Parkinson disease - even if it occurs as early as 20 years before the onset of motor symptoms, research suggests.
25/11/2009 | Colorectal cancer patients treated in public hospitals have a nearly 50% increased risk of dying within one month of treatment compared to patients treated in private hospitals, Queensland research finds.
11/11/2009 | Dispensing with formal histopathology for most small polyps may be feasible, after new research finds optical diagnosis is effective in assessing both polyp histopathology and future surveillance intervals.
11/11/2009 | A new iPhone application helps users keep track of and interpret their bowel movements.