Background While colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most preventable causes of cancer mortality, it is one of the leading causes of cancer death in Canada where CRC screening uptake is suboptimal. Given the increased rate of mortality and morbidity among mental health patients, their condition could be a potential barrier to CRC screening due to greater difficulties in adhering to behaviours...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a third most common epithelial carcinoma. CRC is known to develop from the early precancerous lesion to full blown malignancy via definite phases due to cumulative mutations and aberrant methylation of number of genes. The use of serum biomarkers that is non-invasive to discriminate cancer patients from healthy persons will prove to be an important tool to improve the...

aim : this study investigated the role of cd86 +237 g/c polymorphism in intensifying the risk of crc development. background : colorectal cancer (crc) is a multi-factorial diseases. genetic background could affect the susceptibility of individuals to crc development. cd86 is a co-stimulatory factor on antigen-presenting cells that plays key roles in several cancer related mechanisms such as aut...