Gastrointestinal cancer cases are expected to double worldwide by 2050, according to a multi-institutional study co-led by ...

“Large-scale efforts need to be made" in the fight against these cancers, said paper author Dr. Ju Dong Yang.

Gastrointestinal cancers are expected to double globally by 2050, according to a new multi-institutional study co-led by Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai, among others. The authors’ projections are ...

A study at two US medical centers found that patients with brain metastases from gastrointestinal (GI) cancers had significantly worse overall survival and intracranial progression-free survival (PFS) ...

Cancers affecting the digestive system are becoming increasingly common worldwide. Many of these cancers develop slowly and may not cause clear symptoms in the early stages. Because the signs often ...

“There [was] a lot of great data at ASCO GI this year,” Kamath, who is an assistant professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, told ...

Tiago Biachi, MD, PhD, highlighted the transformative role of personalized medicine in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer treatment through advances in next-generation sequencing and circulating tumor DNA, ...

The liver is an extremely sensitive organ. It filters blood, eliminates toxins and creates bile to digest food; without a functioning liver, a person will die. Its sensitive nature, however, makes it ...

Gastrointestinal cancer represents a complex group of diseases that affect the digestive system, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives globally each year. These malignancies can develop anywhere ...

A recent study has identified a potential new tool to help detect gastrointestinal cancers — the platelet-to-high-density lipoprotein ratio, or PHR. Researchers analyzed data from more than 19,000 ...

Early-onset gastrointestinal cancers represent the most rapidly increasing early-onset cancer in the U.S. Colorectal cancer is the most common early-onset GI cancer, but pancreatic, gastric, and ...

Among individuals with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), a negative upper endoscopy is associated with decreased risk in incidence and mortality from gastrointestinal cancer. The benefit ...