People with the hereditary disease familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a greatly increased risk of developing a malignant tumor of the duodenum. Researchers have now discovered a mechanism in ...

Duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (DGISTs) represent a rare subset of mesenchymal neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract, accounting for approximately 3–5% of all gastrointestinal stromal ...

Clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes for metastatic early-onset small bowel adenocarcinoma treated with first-line chemotherapy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO ...

Distribution of lymph node metastasis and prognosis in duodenal bulb tumors: A multicenter retrospective study. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Brittany Svehlak, a 28-year-old mother from Texas, is confronting stage 3 colon cancer just two years after overcoming stage 3 duodenal cancer. Initially misdiagnosed for months, she endured severe ...

Why Are Small Bowel Tumors So Rare? Medscape: Considering that the small bowel comprises the largest overall surface area of the lower gastrointestinal tract, why are small bowel cancers less common ...

Gastrointestinal cancer surgeons at the UC San Francisco have performed the health system’s 15,000th robotically assisted minimally invasive surgery, making it the first University of California ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Early research showed nasoduodenal tube delivery of amifostine may help protect the duodenum during radiation ...

Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a hereditary disease which, in addition to a high risk of bowel cancer, also a greatly increased risk of duodenal cancer. At present, the only treatment ...