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colorectal cancer staging radiology

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colon cancer aspirin treatment. aspirin prevents recurrence of colon cancer. dr. anton titov, md: use of non-steroidal anti inflammatory agents (aspirin) in colorectal cancer treatment and prevention is one of your interests. experience with selective cox-2 inhibitors has been mixed. you wrote in new england journal of medicine about the risks and benefits of cox-2 inhibitors for colon cancer therapy. it was before vioxx was withdrawn from the market. what is your current thinking about the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents - like aspirin - in treatment of colon cancer and rectal cancer? dr. david kerr, md (colon cancer oncologist, oxford): as we've discussed i spend a large amount of time working with colleagues in oxford. we study the molecular genetics of colorectal cancer cells within the tumor. but over the past 4 or 5 years i have realized that microenvionment of the tumor is as important for treatment result as the genetics of the cancer itself. if we can influen...

colorectal cancer staging radiographics

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>>> okay, unfortunately the doctor had a conflict and so she's going to give her lecture on september 30th. so i switched with her, and i'm giving the lecture today on small cell lung cancer, the second speaker is jim gulley, talking about prostate cancer. so all of -- and then in terms of announcements, we now have within telepoint posted at the website, s and then the video cast is now archived, so the first lecture you can call this up on your computer. anytime. and you click past events, and you click lectures, you scroll down to traco, you'll find lectures fro from ten years of traco, we have over 100 lectures posted. everything that gets posted stays there, and then you'll notice one interesting thing is my address has changed, and my phone number because my office was moved last week from building 31 to shady grove, so that's good for the 20 people at shade y shady grove, now youcan pick up handouts in my office. tha...

colorectal cancer staging histology

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[silence] my name is david lieberman. i'm the chief of gastroenterologyat oregon health and science university, and i am honoredto participate in this effort by the centersfor disease control and prevention to improve the qualityof colorectal cancer screening. for those of you who do not know me, i am a past president of the americansociety for gastrointestinal endoscopy and a current memberof the governing board of the american gastroenterologicalassociation, or the aga. i have been a participant in the national colorectalcancer roundtable for many years. i served as chair of the multisociety task forceon colorectal cancer for six years and participated in the development of colorectal cancer screeningand surveillance guidelines. my research has focusedon colorectal cancer screening, surveillance, and quality. we now have compelling evidencethat colon cancer screening works. it reduces the incidenceand mortality of colorectal cancer but only if it's performed with high quality...