Rates of colorectal cancer diagnoses dropped during and shortly after Hurricanes Irma and Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic in Puerto Rico, according to a recent analysis led by investigators at the University of Puerto Rico.
Cancer Research UK and partners on March 31 committed £5.5 million in funding to form a research team tasked with making personalized medicine a reality for people with colorectal cancer. The initiative is designed to unite research expertise and solve unanswered questions about the disease.
Exact Sciences Corp. announced the launch of Cologuard Plus, the most accurate noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test reported in studies to date. FDA-approved for average-risk patients 45+ and covered by Medicare, the Cologuard Plus test detects 95% of colorectal cancers at 94% specificity in the U.S. screening population.
Two recent studies by researchers from Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine explore the effect of the pandemic on colorectal cancer screening tests and diagnostic colonoscopies in central Indiana.
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers developed a “self-driving” microscope that solves two challenges that have long plagued microscopy: 1) imaging living cells or organisms at dramatically different scales, and 2) following a specific structure or area of interest over long periods of time.