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Small Intestine Cancer Research

Targeted Treatment for Rare Digestive Tract Cancers May Extend Survival

Posted: December 7, 2018

In an early-phase trial, dabrafenib plus trametinib shrank tumors in patients with biliary tract cancer and adenocarcinoma of the small intestine whose tumors had a specific mutation in the BRAF gene.
Drug Combination Shrinks Duodenal Polyps in People with Familial Adenomatous Polyposis

Posted: April 7, 2016

In a small clinical trial of people with an inherited condition that greatly increases gastrointestinal cancer risk, a two-drug combination shrank precancerous lesions in the duodenum.