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Coverage from the

18th World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer (WCGC)

June 29 - July 03, 2016; Barcelona, Spain

June 29 - July 03, 2016 Barcelona, Spain

WCGC Back to the Future in the Quest for Affordable Cancer Care Oncologists need to take the lead on making cancer care affordable by turning the promise of personalized medicine into a reality and revisiting inexpensive drugs and practices, say European experts.
Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2016
WCGC Low LDH May Predict Second-Line Bevacizumab CRC Response The addition of bevacizumab to second-line chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer could be targeted to patients with low lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels, say Italian scientists.
Medscape Medical News, July 7, 2016
WCGC Novel Antibody Offers Hope for Patients With Advanced CRC A novel anti-interleukin-1 antibody therapy showed significant improvements in clinical response over placebo in patients with advanced colorectal cancer in whom chemotherapy had failed.
Medscape Medical News, July 5, 2016

Conference News

WCGC Back to the Future in the Quest for Affordable Cancer Care
Medscape Medical News, July 13, 2016
WCGC Low LDH May Predict Second-Line Bevacizumab CRC Response
Medscape Medical News, July 7, 2016
WCGC Novel Antibody Offers Hope for Patients With Advanced CRC
Medscape Medical News, July 5, 2016

WCGC No Gastric Cancer Survival Benefit in CRITICS Trial
Medscape Medical News, July 5, 2016
WCGC Novel Cancer Weight-loss Drugs Needed to Improve Outcomes
Medscape Medical News, July 4, 2016
WCGC Regorafenib 'New Gold Standard' for Second-Line in Liver Cancer
Medscape Medical News, July 1, 2016

Most Popular News from WCGC 2015

Simple Test May Help Predict the Need for Repeat Colonoscopy A simple genetic test based on blood biomarkers may help to identify which individuals should undergo repeat colonoscopy for colorectal cancer.
Medscape Medical News, Jul 6, 2015
Novel Score Predicts Recurrence of Liver Cancer A novel score based on seven genes helps predict whether hepatocellular carcinoma patients will experience early or late disease recurrence.
Medscape Medical News, Jul 3, 2015
Anal Cancer Guidelines: CTs Now Needed to Support Opinions European guidelines for the diagnosis and management of anal cancer may set out the basis of good clinical practice, but randomized clinical trials are needed.
Medscape Medical News, Jul 3, 2015

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