Patient Stories

Learn about our patients and the patient care provided by the Gastrointestinal Oncology Program.

Lynn Butterly, MD

How colorectal cancer can be preventable

Colorectal cancer is a preventable disease, but is still the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States.

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Jennifer A. Reichert, RN

Navigating patients through colorectal cancer screening

A successful patient navigation model designed in New Hampshire is being shared across the country to increase colorectal cancer screening.

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 Arief A. Suriawinata, MD, and Saeed Hassanpour, PhD.

Helping to prevent colorectal cancer with machine learning

Dartmouth Cancer Center research introduces new technology that helps pathologists more accurately classify polyps.

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Arief A. Suriawinata, MD and Saeed Hassanpour, PhD

Artificial Intelligence for Colorectal Cancer Detection Proves Useful in the Clinic

A biomedical informatics team at Norris Cotton Cancer Center has developed AI for colorectal polyp classification that a recent clinical trial showed is useful to practicing pathologists.

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Audrey Calderwood, MD

The Impact of COVID-19 on Colorectal Cancer Screening

Researchers take a close look at the impact of the pandemic on endoscopy volumes and what that could mean for colorectal cancer diagnoses.

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