Colorectal cancer patients of African ancestry are less likely to have tumors that respond well to two important classes of newer treatments: immunotherapy and targeted therapy, according to an analysis of genetic data from 4,441 people treated for colorectal cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. These treatments work better against tumors […]
Americans have become less aware that the human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer in recent years, according to survey data from 2014 to 2020 presented at a 2023 scientific meeting. Researchers found that 70.2% of respondents knew that HPV can cause cervical cancer in 2020, down from 77.6% in 2014. The decline in awareness about
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More than 20 percent of patients, and one in three Hispanic women, say they would forego follow-up tests after an abnormal mammogram if they had to pay a deductible, according to a recent survey of 714 patients at the Boston Medical Center. The study also found that 18% of respondents would abstain from breast cancer
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Health insurance coverage may help mitigate racial inequities in advanced-stage cervical cancer diagnoses, according to a study of more than 23,000 women diagnosed with the cancer between 2007 and 2016. Women with private insurance or Medicare were more likely to be diagnosed with early-stage cervical cancer than those with Medicaid or without insurance (57.8 percent versus
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American Indian and Alaskan Native men are diagnosed with prostate cancer at higher PSA levels, have a greater incidence of metastasis at diagnosis, and are more like to die of prostate cancer than any other racial or ethnic groups, according to a study of nearly half a million patients, including over 1500 American Indian/Alaskan Native
Research on endometrial cancer is vastly underfunded compared with other reproductive cancers despite the fact that death rates are increasing, especially in Black women. Linda Zambrano Guevara (above) from the Duke University Medical Center compared the National Cancer Institute funding for various cancers compared with their “lethality scores,” a metric that accounts for the incidence,
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Adherence to annual lung cancer screening with low-dose CT scans was only 22.3 percent among more than 1 million patients considered high risk who underwent baseline screening between 2015 and 2019. For individuals considered high risk based on age and smoking history, an annual lung scan of the chest has been recommended by the United
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In a study of 616,479 men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer from 2010 to 2017, Black men, Asian men, American and Alaskan Native men, men without health insurance, men with Medicaid insurance, and men in the lowest income quartile were all less likely to be treated than White men. “The biggest message is that these
Researchers pooled data from 10 genome-wide association studies, virtually all of the existing data on genetic risk for prostate cancer in men of African ancestry for a meta-analysis. The data were collected in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean on 19,378 men with prostate cancer and 61,620 healthy controls. The study identified nine new
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