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Increased consumption of plant-based foods is associated with a lower risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC) in men, according to the Multiethnic Cohort study.

Giving chemotherapy to patients with synchronous and unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer before undergoing primary tumour resection helps boost survival outcomes, according to a phase III trial presented at this year’s ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium (ASCO GI).

According to a retrospective, territory-wide, case-based study, the mRNA-based BNT162b2 vaccine and inactivated CZ02 vaccine were partially effective against SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents during the Omicron BA.2 wave in Hong Kong. 

The overall rate of antipsychotic drug prescriptions to patients with dementia increased markedly during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and did not return to prepandemic levels when the acute phase was over, a multinational network cohort study has shown.

Tumour response-speed heterogeneity to first-line chemotherapy is predictive of early disease progression and shorter survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, reveals a study.

In men with localized prostate cancer undergoing radical prostatectomy and treated with 5α-reductase inhibitor (5-ARI), preoperative levels of circulating 11-oxygenated androgens can indicate either disease progression or improved survival, a recent study has found.