Focus on Gastrointestinal Cancer
Below are all the Focus articles related specifically to gastrointestinal cancers. All Focus articles are also available.
Sifting Through "Junk" for Colorectal Cancer Clues
Two Cancer Center researchers at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth have helped to identify switches that can turn on or off genes associated with colorectal cancer.
May 17, 2012
Video Gets to the Bottom of Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is deadly—it is, in fact, the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, after lung cancer. But it is also one of only a few cancers that can be prevented through the use of screening tests. Literally, screening tests can save lives.
February 27, 2012
A Glimmer of Hope Against Pancreatic Cancer
February 06, 2012
April 26, 2011
Meeting the Challenges to Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths, but it's also one of the few cancers that can be prevented.
April 25, 2011
A Surgeon's Personal Call to Cancer Care
April 20, 2011
The First Steps toward an Anti-Tumor Vaccine
April 15, 2011
The New Hampshire Colorectal Cancer Screening Program aims to increase CRC screening to 80% of the state's residents age 50 and older by 2014.
October 25, 2010
Interdisciplinary Pancreatic Cancer Clinic
Gastroenterologist Timothy Gardner, MD, wants to speed the treatment timeline for people newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
January 15, 2009
Murray Korc: Putting Principles into Practice
As both a physician and a scientist, Murray Korc, MD, strives to bring new treatments from the lab bench to the hospital bed.
January 10, 2009
Interdisciplinary Liver Tumor Clinic
The Interdisciplinary Liver Tumor Clinic at Norris Cotton Cancer Center is the only clinic of its kind in New Hampshire.
April 27, 2008
