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Saturday, October 17th, 2009

Old Drug is New Again in the Fight Against Colon Cancer

In the fight against colon cancer, one of the world’s leading cancer killers, researchers and scientists are at work each and every day all over the world trying to create new drugs that will benefit those afflicted. However a team from the Tel Aviv University has discovered that by tweaking the formula of an old [...]

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Do Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients have an Increased Risk for Colon Cancer?

For those who have been diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease their doctors often warn them that they may be at higher risk for eventually developing colon cancer. But how realistic is that assumption? Medical research has shown that indeed Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients have demonstrated a certain increased risk for colon cancer, but the figures [...]