Colorectal cancer

MONDAY, April 14 (HealthDay News)–A new combination of two medicines may prove helpful to restrain colorectal cancer and it has also been discovered that Sutent, which is a new powerful cancer medicine may slow down the development of liver cancer.

These are the results of two studies that were presented on Monday at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in San Diego.

Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO)

According to the first report a treatment with two medicines, which were consisted of low doses of difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) in addition with sulindac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), decreased the risk of colorectal adenomas almost up to 95 percent.Colorectal adenomas are considered near the beginning indication of colon cancer.

“We, in fact, believe we are on track to make a medical resource to avoid colon cancer,”it was stated by Dr. Frank L. Meyskens, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Irving, and lead researcher of the study.

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Washington - The American Cancer Society said that death rate in the U.S due to cancer is maintained a constant decline, which started in the early 90s. However, it may still cause an estimated 565,650 American deaths in this year.

Age-adjusted cancer death rates for U.S. males in a graphic released by the American Cancer Society. The U.S. death rate from cancer has continued a steady decline that began in the early 1990s but it will still kill a projected 565,650 Americans this year, the organization said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Handout

“The death rate due to lung, prostate, breast, colorectal and various other types of cancer dropped in 2005, which is the most recent year for which data were available. However the data was less compared to 2003 and 2004,” the American Cancer Society said. In 2005, there was about 184 cancer deaths per 100,000 people where as it was 186 the year before.

But there was increase in the actual number of deaths due to cancer. ACS said that about 559,312 people died due to cancer in 2005, compared to 553,888 in the year 2004. The numbers of deaths have increased in spite of fall in death rate as the population of the United States increased more. (more…)