Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed […]
Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed
Black patients with advanced colorectal cancer had a 12.6% reduction in mortality in Medicaid-expansion states, compared with a 6.1% reduction in nonexpanded states. Naveen Manisundaram, MD (above), and his colleagues at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston analyzed data from the National Cancer Database to compare mortality rates for patients with
Black women were 20 percent less likely than White women to receive digital mammography after its implementation in 2005, and 16 percent less likely than white women to receive digital breast tomosynthesis after its implementation in 2015. Earlier detection of breast cancer has been facilitated by major technological advances, in particularly the evolution from screen-film mammography
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Mailing human papillomavirus (HPV) self-collection tests and offering assistance to book screening appointments to under-screened, low-income women improved cervical cancer screening nearly two-fold compared to scheduling assistance alone. “Many hadn’t engaged in the screening system for a while and getting the kit to their homes helped break down a fundamental barrier,” said researcher Jennifer Smith,
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Black patients with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer were 20 percent less likely and Hispanic patients 17 percent less likely to be enrolled in clinical trials, according to a study of 1.7 million cancer patients from 2004 to 2018. Also less likely to participate in clinical trials were lung cancer patients with Medicaid or
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Four important signs and symptoms that signal an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer have been identified from health insurance data on more than 5,000 patients with early-onset colorectal cancer. This is cancer that occurs before a person turns 50. The number of young adults with colorectal cancer has nearly doubled in recent years. Researchers
Hispanic women had the highest uterine (endometrial) cancer rates among U.S. women ages 35 to 39 in 2018, double what was found in White women. And researchers say cases have been rising a steady 4 percent each year since 2001. “Most cases of uterine cancer happen in the post-menopausal stage,” says Monica Avila, MD (above),
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Endometrial cancer rates are rising rapidly among reproductive-aged Hispanic women, adding to the alarming pattern of disparity among women of color. This cancer is long known to disproportionately strike Black women. In 2018, Hispanic women had the highest uterine cancer rate among young reproductive-age women ages 35 to 39 – a rate 50% higher than
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Lung cancer incidence rates show wide variations among the racial and ethnic subgroups in Florida’s Black and Hispanic populations. To assess incidence patterns in Florida’s highly diverse population, researchers examined 120,550 cases of lung cancer in Florida from 2012 to 2018 and computed specific age-adjusted incidence rates for U.S.-born Black, Caribbean-born Black, U.S.-born Mexican, foreign-born Mexican,
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