News & Updates

High-risk individuals who develop neoplastic progression to pancreatic cancer or high-grade dysplasia can present at an advanced stage despite showing no lesions during prior imaging surveillance evaluations, a new study has found.

Individuals with chronic constipation do not seem to be at increased risk of developing subsequent colorectal cancer as compared with their peers who do not have the gastrointestinal condition, as reported in a study.

In immunocompetent patients admitted at a community hospital, comorbidities such as advanced gastric cancer and atrophic gastritis (AG), as well as treatment with proton pump inhibitors (PPI), seem to aggravate the risk of developing oesophageal candidiasis (EC), a recent study has found.

Negative upper endoscopy findings in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) indicate lower risk of developing upper gastrointestinal cancer, a new study has found.

Data presented at ID Week 2021 show that Clostridioides difficile (CDI), which is known to be hospital-associated, is highly prevalent even in nonhealthcare settings.

Combining the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte (PLR) ratios with existing diagnostic methods helps improve early detection of second primary cancers (SPC) after initial gastric cancer (GC), a recent study has found.