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Wednesday 14 Oct 2015 - 17:51 Makkah mean time-1-1-1437
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London (IINA) – Researchers have discovered four different types of bowel cancer, with hopes this could lead to a breakthrough in treating the condition.
Bowel cancer affects the colon and the rectum and is also known as colorectal cancer. Researchers looked at data from 3,443 patients from all over the world, taking into consideration things like genetic mutations and cell metabolism, and found that 87 percent of the cancers could be contained in one of four groups - known as consensus molecular subtypes (CMS). For example, those in CMS2 had very strong chances of beating the disease even if it ended up returning. However, those in CMS4 tended to be diagnosed late and be more likely to have their cancer spread.
"Our study has identified four distinct types of bowel cancer, each with a definite set of genetic and biological characteristics, and some of which are more aggressive and more likely to be fatal than others," the Institute of Cancer Research in London's Dr Anguraj Sadanandam explained.
"This could allow doctors to pick out those patients with more aggressive disease and treat them accordingly. Ultimately, it could lead to development of new molecular diagnostic tests to diagnose patients by their particular type of bowel cancer, and give them the most effective treatments for that type,” he added.
The research was published in the Natural Medicine journal.
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