Colorectal cancer disparities between Black and White adults were eliminated among members of a Northern California health care organization after it instituted a regionwide, structured colorectal cancer screening program. In 2009, the colorectal cancer death rate (per 100,000) was 54.2 for Black members and 32.6 for white members. By 2019, death rates had fallen by […]
New lung cancer screening eligibility criteria can eliminate the racial disparities in who qualifies for screening. Researchers applied the new criteria to a past study of nearly a thousand lung cancer patients in the Detroit, Michigan, area. Under the old criteria, 52% of White patients vs 42% of Black patients would have been eligible for
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Black men younger than 56 years old were twice as likely as White men to experience more than 6 months delay in treatment of their localized prostate cancer. That’s the finding of an analysis of nearly 90,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2004 to 2017, in a study led by Bhav Jain of the
Blacks referred to a dedicated lung cancer screening program, instead of to a general radiology department, are more likely to follow up positive screening results and more likely to continue undergoing annual screening. Dedicated or centralized programs actively recruit and guide patients through the entire screening and followup process. In a study of more than
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A scoring algorithm using 290 genetic variants linked to prostate cancer accurately predicted the risk of developing or dying of metastatic prostate cancer among more than half a million military veterans in a study led by Meghana Pagadala (above) of the University of California San Diego. Men in the highest 20 percent of the scores,
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A multi-faceted intervention cut the time from diagnosis of lung cancer to surgery by about two weeks for Black patients. Historically, Black patients are less likely than Whites to be treated with surgery for lung cancer and if they do have surgery, they wait an average of a week longer, which reduces their odds of
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In a study of 121 women with triple-negative breast cancer, Black women were younger (by an average of 4 years) and more likely to be obese and have high blood pressure compared with White women. This higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors could put them at higher risk for cardiotoxicity from chemotherapy, according to researchers
Differences in the expression of DNA repair genes may help to explain why breast cancer mortality is higher in black women than white women. Researchers compared tumour samples from 144 black women and 703 white women diagnosed with breast cancer, looking at the expression of 104 DNA repair genes previously shown to affect responses to
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Breast cancer has surpassed lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer-associated death among Black women in the U.S. Black women are at lower risk for a breast cancer diagnosis but 41% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, according to the new Cancer Statistics for African American/Black People 2022. Within the
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has expanded eligibility for people with Medicare to get free lung cancer screening with low dose computed tomography (LCDT) by lowering the starting age for screening to 50 years and reducing the tobacco smoking history from at least 30 packs per year to at least 20 packs
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