Tag: increased

Increased risk of colorectal cancer across consecutive birth cohorts

colorectal cancer CRC epidemiology is being transformed by the birth cohort effect, also known as birth cohort CRC, an observed phenomenon of increased risk of colorectal cancer across generations for people born after 1960, according to a new narrative review. Birth cohort CRC is associated with increased rectal cancer ( colon cancer) diagnosis and distant-stage […]

Inherited genes are associated with increased risk of intestinal diverticular disease

Researchers at the University of Queensland have used genetics to show that much of the risk of developing a common and sometimes fatal bowel disease is inherited. Dr Yeda Wu and Professor Naomi Ray from the UQ Institute of Molecular Biosciences are investigating the role of intestinal diverticular disease (DivD), an overlooked and under-studied disease […]

Research Shows Increased Risk of Cancer in Relatives of People with Leukemia

Relatives of patients with myelodysplastic tumors (MDS), acute myeloid leukemia (AML), or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at increased risk of cancer, according to a study published in the February issue of the journal It was revealed. cancer epidemiology. Nikolaj Juul Nitschke and colleagues at Copenhagen University Hospital in Denmark used linked data from the […]