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Researchers from the University of Oxford announced on Thursday that they have developed the first genetic test for predicting the likelihood that a patient's colon cancer will recur...
...test, which scans for mutations in 12 genes expressed by colon tumors, can tell patients in the early stages of colon cancer the chances that their disease will come back after treatment. That information can help doctors decide whether patients will need chemotherapy once their tumors are removed through surgery. According to the researchers who conducted the first study of the test, patients with low risk scores may expect an 8% chance of seeing their cancer come back within three years; higher-scoring patients have a 25% chance of recurrence over the same time period. Colon cancer is currently...
Kerr looked at the usefulness of the test in more than 1,000 Stage 2 colon-cancer patients. At this stage, the cancer has penetrated the colon wall but has not spread beyond the colon into the lymph nodes or nearby tissues. About 90% of Stage 2 patients survive five years beyond the diagnosis. In almost all cases, surgeons remove the cancer first; studies have shown that surgery alone can cure four out of five cases of Stage 2 colon cancer. But how do patients know if they are the outlying fifth case or if they are among the fortunate...
...latter capability is something the colon-cancer screen doesn't have - yet. But it's something that Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, believes is necessary to make the test truly useful for doctors and patients. "What this test clearly does is tell people that you have a greater likelihood of being in the group that is at high risk or low risk of having a recurrence, but it doesn't tell you that your risk will change if you get chemo...
...life!" the old Commander Kirk, William Shatner, angrily told die-hard Trekkies in a famous Saturday Night Live skit. Over the past four days the venerable TV and movie franchise got new life by winning the box-office weekend. The first Trek movie to boldly go without a colon in the title amassed $76.5 million in its first four days, including $4 million from Thursday night shows, according to early industry estimates. That should leave the Paramount executives beaming: they have a healthy new-old franchise. (See the 10 best Star Trek moments...