Discovery of common genetic variation associated with colorectal cancer

News  |  www.news-medical.net | Apr 25, 2009

Genetics plays a key role in determining risk for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Genetics plays a key role in determining risk for colorectal cancer, the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States.

http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48754

ScheBo® • Biotech AG - High-Tech Biotechnologyfor fighting cancer

• Biotech AG is an innovative biotech company that is active in the fields of development, production and marketing of diagnostics and drug development.

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Colorectal cancer : The Lancet

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Colorectal cancer. By - Jürgen Weitz MD, Moritz Koch MD, Jürgen Debus MD, Thomas Höhler MD, Peter R Galle MD, Markus W Büchler MD

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)17706-X

Curis's partner Genentech initiates Phase II colorectal cancer trial

News  |  www.pharmaceutical-business-review.com | May 6, 2008

Curis has announced that its collaborator Genentech has initiated a Phase II clinical trial of GDC-0449, an orally-administered small molecule Hedgehog antagonist, in metastatic colorectal cancer. As a result, Genentech will make a $3 million cash payment to Curis under the companies' June 2003

http://www.pharmaceutical-business-review.com/article_news.asp?guid=32D3EBA8-7D93-4C26-81AB-8AF1CA259F2F

MVH: Mon Valley Hospital

Pointing the way to healthier lives! Health and wellness are the focus of MVH's community-driven educational and resource center in Finleyville, known as "Healthy Directions.

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ScienceDirect - Pathologie Biologie, Articles in Press

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ScienceDirect - the world's leading platform offers over 2,000 high quality peer-reviewed full-text journals and books on science, technology and medicine.

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Coalition Urges CMS to Re-open CTC Coverage Decision

News  |  www.surgistrategies.com | May 12, 2009

WASHINGTON The CTC Working Group, a coalition of physician providers, colon cancer patient advocates and imaging equipment manufacturers, today said they were disappointed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decision for computed tomography colonography (CTC),

http://www.surgistrategies.com/hotnews/coalition-asks-to-reopen-ctc-coverage.html

Colorectal Cancer Screening

Like mammograms and pap tests, regular colorectal cancer screening can save lives. Screening tests can find colorectal cancer early, when the chance of being cured is better. Screening tests, such as a colonoscopy, can find polyps so they can be removed before they turn into cancer.

http://www.marshfieldclinic.org/patients/?page=about_qualitymeasures_colorectalcancerscreening

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Karolinska Institutet in collaboration with Stockholm School of Economics Stockholm, Sweden Foreword One of the great triumphs of scientific research has been to advance our knowledge of the causes and pathophysiology of malignancy.

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Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada commercializes ERBITUX(TM) for advanced colorectal cancer (CNW Group)

News  |  finance.yahoo.com | Oct 29, 2008

ERBITUX offers patients new option for treating the disease and receives approval from Health Canada

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/BristolMyers-Squibb-Canada-cnw-13400889.html