September 04, 2016 – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers, a research collaboration which includes University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University, who last year identified new gene mutations unique to colon cancers in African Americans, have found that …

Adverse clinical outcome associated with mutations in colorectal cancers of African Americans Read more »

August 11. 2014 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Cologuard, the first stool-based colorectal screening test that detects the presence of red blood cells and DNA mutations that may indicate the presence of certain kinds of abnormal …

FDA approves first non-invasive DNA screening test for colorectal cancer Read more »

April 25, 2014 – This article just appeared in Medscape Oncology. It is a good example to illustrate that also effective chemoprevention (of cancer) may largely depend on the genetic makeup of the individual (patient). The case is about the …

Personalized Medicine: The benefit of Acetylsalicylic Acid [Aspirin] in preventing colorectal cancer seems to depend on the expression level of the 15-PGDH gene in the individual Read more »