gastrointestinal cancer

Genetic testing reduces risks from chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer patients

by Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania edited by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Andrew Zinin   Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain For some patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers like colorectal and pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy can cause severe, sometimes life-threatening side effects in those who carry certain genetic variants that can impact how their bodies process the […]

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What’s behind the enormous increase in early-onset gastrointestinal cancers?

July 8, 2025  The GIST What’s behind the enormous increase in early-onset gastrointestinal cancers? by Oxford University Press edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Credit: CC0 Public Domain A paper in the British Journal of Surgery indicates that early-onset gastrointestinal cancer rates are rising dramatically across the globe. In the United States, the age-standardized rate of colorectal cancer decreased from 66.2

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