Category Archives: Intestinal Cancer

Your small intestine is part of your digestive system. It is a long tube that connects your stomach to your large intestine. Intestinal cancer is rare, but eating a high-fat diet or having Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, or a history of colonic polyps can increase your risk.

Abdominal pain or lumps, weight loss for no reason or blood in the stool can be symptoms. Imaging tests that create pictures of the small intestine and the area around it can help diagnose intestinal cancer and show whether it has spread.

Surgery is the most common treatment. Additional options include chemotherapy, radiation or a combination.

NIH: National Cancer Institute

Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) Therapeutics – Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 20 – SBWire

The report provides information on the key drivers and challenges of the Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) Therapeutics market. Its scope includes – – Annualized seven key markets (US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and Japan) Gastrointestinal … Bing News – … Continue reading

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Bayer Oncology Dubs ASCO “Turning Point” for Cancer Efforts – Xconomy

“This is an exciting expansion.” The first drug that generated some buzz at ASCO is regorafenib, which the company is testing in colorectal cancer and gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST). In colon cancer patients who had failed other … Bing News – … Continue reading

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Molecular Clues Help Refine Kinase Inhibitor Strategy for GI

Robert G. Maki, MD, Ph.D., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center www.medpagetoday.com ORLANDO — In the post-imatinib (Gleevec) era, treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors has shifted from serial surgeries to refinement of kinase inhibitor dosing, according to this presentation from the ASCO-GI … Continue reading

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Thoracoscopic Enucleation of an Esophageal Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor

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Threshold Pharmaceuticals Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2011 Financial and Operational Results – Yahoo Finance

The “410 trial” is a Phase 1/2 trial in combination with sunitinib in patients with renal cell carcinoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumors or pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. To date, across all clinical trials, TH-302 has been administered to … Bing News – … Continue reading

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Gleevec Approval Widened to Include Rare Cancer – Newsday

U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval for the Novartis drug Gleevec has been expanded to include adults who have had surgical removal of CD117-positive gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), the agency said in a news release. GIST is a … Bing … Continue reading

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Cat Cancer Risk Factors May Help Humans – Drug Discovery & Development

A large-scale study on cat intestinal cancer has provided insight into a common pet disease and its causes, a finding that could ultimately benefit humans.  “We are looking for patterns of cancer development in animals, so we can find common … Continue reading

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Living with a Rare Cancer: The Team Approach – NorthJersey.com

For example, in the U.S. alone, there are up to 6,000 new cases each year of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a rare but life-threatening cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. GIST are found mostly in the stomach or small bowel. They … Continue reading

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Veenat, Geftinat, Soranib

Veenat, Geftinat, SoranibVeenat is a very effective drug in the treatment of certain types of leukemia (cancer that begins in the white blood cells) and other cancers of the blood cells. It is also used to treat gastrointestinal stromal tumors.Geftinat … Continue reading

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Benefits of Alternative Cancer Treatments For Stomach Cancer

Stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, occurs in the wall and lining of the stomach. According to the American Cancer Society, about 21,500 new cases of stomach cancer were reported in 2008. Stomach cancer was once a leading cause of … Continue reading

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