A substantial proportion of women who were not vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV) never received cervical cancer screening or were not up to date on screening recommendations in 2019, according to a study of 2019 data by Kalyani Sonawane (above) and her colleagues. Asian women aged 21 to 39 were significantly less likely than White […]
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Cervical cancer cases have plummeted nearly 90 percent after UK set out in 2008 to vaccinate girls ages 12 and 13 with the HPV vaccine. Girls vaccinated between 14 and 16 had a 62 percent drop and girls vaccinated between 16 and 18 years a 24 percent decline compared with the unvaccinated. “The impact has
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Experts describe how breast cancer affects Black women and offer a few key ways they can try to keep it out of their future. 1. Black women are often diagnosed with more aggressive forms of breast cancer. 2. Black women are underrepresented in clinical trials, often for reasons beyond their control. 3. Black women tend
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Identifying and addressing obstacles that kept patients from finishing radiation treatments for early-stage breast cancer erases the survival gap between Black and white patients, according to a new study led by Matthew A. Manning, MD (above), a radiation oncologist in Greensboro, North Carolina. The changes included an electronic health record with automatic alerts to flag
Black women are dying of breast cancer at higher rates compared with white women in Chicago, but the reason is not just a lack of access to mammography, David Ansell, MD (above) of Rush University and his colleagues discovered. It was lack of access to quality mammography. Large-volume screening centers have higher-quality scores than lower-volume
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“On the leaderboard for lung cancer mortality, Kentucky is number 1, Mississippi, number 2, Arkansas number 3, and Tennessee and West Virginia at number 4 and 5. At number 6 is Alabama, and then you have the Carolinas and Louisiana,” says Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD (above), of the Baptist Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee. “If
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Blacks in the U.S. were significantly more likely than Whites to die from cervical, anal or throat cancer during the years 2007 and 2015. Eric Adjei Boakye (above) and his colleagues analyzed the medical records of more than 77,000 adults with these cancers. Hispanics were more likely to die of throat cancer, but less likely
Identifying and addressing obstacles that kept patients from finishing radiation treatments for early-stage breast cancer erases the survival gap between Black and white patients, according to a new study led by Matthew A. Manning, MD (above), a radiation oncologist in Greensboro, North Carolina. The changes included an electronic health record with automatic alerts to flag
Smokers who kick the habit before age 45 can nearly eliminate their excess risk of dying from lung or other cancers, a new study of more than 400,000 smokers estimates. Smokers died of cancer at three times the rate of nonsmokers. However, smokers who managed to quit by age 45 lowered that excess risk by
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A risk prediction model for breast cancer in U.S. Black women, suitable for use in primary care settings, has been developed and evaluated by researchers at Boston University. “Because U.S. Black women have a disproportionately high rate of breast cancer deaths, improvement in early detection of breast cancer in this population is critical, especially in
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