A new study showing that the percent of women overdue for cervical screening has nearly doubled since 2005 is a “catastrophe,” says cancer specialist Maurie Markman, MD (above) of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. “We have the potential of coming as close to eliminating a cancer as one can come to,” he said. The […]
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The quality of care for breast cancer depends much more on where in the country women are treated than on their race or ethnicity. That’s the finding from an analysis of the medical records of nearly 32,000 women diagnosed with stage I to stage III breast cancer from 2007 through 2013. Researchers compared diagnosis at
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In a study of more than 103,000 patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer between 2000 and 2016, people between 20 and 39 years old had the steepest increase in distant-stage (advanced) early-onset (before age 50) colorectal cancer. The biggest increase in proportion of colon cancers that were distant stage occurred in Blacks in their 20s and
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Progress on tobacco control has not been equal because in communities experiencing health disparities. we continue to see the unequal burden of tobacco use, says Harold Wimmer, President and CEO of the American Lung Association (above). “Menthol cigarettes remain a key factor for tobacco-related death and disease in Black communities, with close to 81% of
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“There is a significant disparity in the knowledge that we have about the tumor landscape of colorectal cancer among Hispanics,” says Mariana Stern, PhD, of the University of Southern California Norris Cancer Center (above). “This has implications for the development of new therapies that may specifically benefit Hispanic patients. A new 5-year $18.5 million study
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While all women can develop cervical cancer, Black women are more likely to be diagnosed and die of cervical cancer, compared to white women in the U.S., says Olivia Cardenas-Trowers, MD, a Mayo Clinic urogynecologist (above). This disparity is not due to genetic differences among white, Black or Hispanic women, but rather related to systemic
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The United States federal and many state and local governments are not doing enough to end cervical cancer deaths, the Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice (SRBWI) and Human Rights Watch said in a report today issued during cervical cancer awareness month and focused on the state of Georgia. In 2021,
Black men with prostate cancer reported worse problems with sexual and urinary function after surgery to remove their prostates than White men who underwent the same surgery. Researchers analyzed the medical records of 1,006 men diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2007 to 2017 at four military institutions and at civilian medical facilities in Washington state.
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In the largest study so far of military veterans with prostate cancer, Black men were twice as likely to be diagnosed with the cancer but had an 11 percent lower risk of the cancer spreading if they were received timely and appropriate treatment. While there was no difference between White and Black men in the
Asian and Hispanic women were much less likely than White and Black women to be currently following cervical cancer screening recommendations, according to a nationally representative survey of more than 20,000 women. About 30 percent of Asian and Hispanic women ages 21 to 65 were not up-to-date with their screening, compared with about 22 percent
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