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3 unusual facts about Colorectal cancer


Bobby Moncur

In September 2007, Moncur was diagnosed with cancer of the colon, but nine months later he was told he was cancer free.

Keith Floyd

On 29 July 2009, it was reported that Floyd had been diagnosed with bowel cancer in the previous month.

Nightmare in A-Minor

By this time, RZA and Prince Paul had left the group, and Poetic died after his 2-year fight with Colon cancer.


Aflibercept

Aflibercept (INN, USAN) is a fusion protein approved in the United States and Europe for the treatment of wet macular degeneration under the trade name Eylea, and for metastatic colorectal cancer as Zaltrap.

Anita Harding

She died of colorectal cancer, 6 days before her 43rd birthday and shortly before she was to take up the Chair in Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology in Queen Square, London.

Cetuximab

Cetuximab is indicated for the treatment of patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-expressing, KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), in combination with chemotherapy, and as a single agent in patients who have failed oxaliplatin- and irinotecan-based therapy and who are intolerant to irinotecan.

Laurence Decore

Decore was a two-time cancer survivor, having survived colon cancer in 1990 and liver cancer two years later, but a third incidence killed him in 1999.

Martin J. Fettman

Fettman spent one year (1989–1990) on sabbatical leave as a Visiting Professor of Medicine at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the University of Adelaide, South Australia, where he worked with the Gastroenterology Unit studying the biochemical epidemiology of human colorectal cancer.

Olive leaf

Some recent research on the olive leaf has shown its antioxidants to be effective in treating some tumors and cancers such as liver, prostate, colon, skin and breast cancer, clinical studies lacking; Olive leaf is especially potent when used in combination with other antioxidants.


see also

Exonic splicing enhancer

Disruption of an exon splicing ehancer in exon 3 of MLH1 gene is the cause of HNPCC (hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer) in a Quebec family.

TME

Total mesorectal excision, a standard technique for treatment of colorectal cancer