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STAT+: In large trial, Guardant Health’s blood test detects colon cancer, but less reliably at earliest or precancerous stages

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Doctors have been eagerly waiting for data on Guardant Health’s new blood-based colorectal cancer screening test, the Shield test. The hope has been that Guardant would be able to achieve an elusive goal in colorectal cancer screening: catch incipient or early colorectal cancer using nothing more than two vials of blood.

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Cleveland Clinic research reveals unique tumor-related bacteria tied to young-onset colorectal cancer

World Pharma News

New research from global health system Cleveland Clinic has mapped changes in tumor-related bacteria to uncover potential new strategies to combat the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) in people under the age of 50.

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STAT+: A yogurt drink instead of a colonoscopy? Study uses engineered bacteria to detect cancer

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Dan Worthley, a gastroenterologist and cancer scientist at Colonoscopy Clinic in Brisbane, Australia, does thousands of colonoscopies a year, seeking and destroying precancerous polyps. It’s a practically surefire way to prevent colorectal cancer, but an unpleasant experience for patients.

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In gold-standard trial, colonoscopy fails to reduce rate of cancer deaths

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If everyone would get the screening just once a decade, clinicians believed it could practically make colorectal cancer “extinct,” said Michael Bretthauer, a gastroenterologist and researcher in Norway. But new results from a clinical trial that he led throw confidence in colonoscopy’s dominance into doubt.

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STAT+: Rise in cancer among younger people worries and puzzles doctors

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Further testing over the next couple of weeks clarified the cause: Gosline had stage 4 colorectal cancer, which had spread to his liver. That’s “the very hard question that none of us really know the answer to,” said Timothy Rebbeck, professor of cancer prevention at the Harvard T.H.

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PDC*line Pharma, partners get €8.1mn from Walloon region, BioWin for personalised therapeutic vaccine  

Express Pharma

PDC*line Pharma, a clinical stage biotech company developing a new class of potent and scalable active immunotherapies for cancer, announced the selection of the PDC*neo+ project for funding by the Walloon region and BioWin, the health cluster for Wallonia.

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IGM jettisons workforce and blood cancer programme to refocus pipeline

Pharmaceutical Technology

IGM will lay off 22% of its staff and suspend four clinical activities to advance autoimmune diseases and colorectal cancer programmes.

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