Article: Researchers Find Flawed Gene Responsible For Some Colon Cancers

Article: GENE COULD IDENTIFY SOME COLON CANCERS.(MAIN)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  June 2, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... WASHINGTON Researchers have identified a flawed gene that is linked to about 20 percent of colon cancers, a finding that could make it possible ... Reserve University, said Thursday the flawed gene triggers cancer in the right portion of ...

Article: Genome Code Cracked for Breast and Colon Cancers.
AScribe Health News Service;  September 7, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... of the genetic code for breast and colon cancers. Their report, published online in ... with 11 samples each from breast and colon cancers, removed from patients after surgery ... mutated; the mutated genes in breast and colon cancers were almost completely distinct, suggesting ...

Article: Routine sigmoidoscopy may miss over half of colon ...
Medical Update;  November 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... Gordon, M.D. noted that over half of colon cancers are beyond the reach of the flexible ... rectum-rose from 21 percent of all colon cancers in 1979 to 30 percent in 1994 among ... decreased from 22 percent of all colon cancers to 11 percent. This continuing trend ...

Article: Mutation analysis is now available for breast, ovarian, and ...
Women's Health Weekly;  May 22, 2003 ;     648 words ... ... available for breast, ovarian, and colon cancers. According to recent research published ... A proportion of cases of breast and colon cancers are caused by inherited mutations that ... DNA testing in breast, ovarian, and colon cancers. Am J Med Sci, 2003;325(3 ...

Article: Colon cancers could be methylated from an early ...
Gastroenterology Week;  May 12, 2003 ;     546 words ... ... was found in tumors of at all clinical stages suggesting colon cancers could be methylated from an early stage. According to recent ... accompanied by HLTF promoter methylation was identified in colon cancers. "We examined HLTF methylation in colorectal, gastric ...

Article: Fewer, but more advanced, colon cancers occur in ...
Biotech Week;  April 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that while there were fewer colon cancers among women in the treatment group than among women taking a placebo, colon cancers that did develop in the treatment group were more advanced when diagnosed ...

Article: Genetic Link Reported in Colon Cancers; One-Third ...
The Washington Post;  September 1, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... abnormalities by age 80. From that they concluded that most of the colon cancers and polyps, including those in the spouses who served as ... inherited susceptibility. "We believe that many if not most colon cancers develop because people have a susceptibility gene and then ...