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American Cancer Society recommends new screening guidelines for cervical cancer

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Pap testing, the standard for cervical cancer prevention for decades, will become obsolete under a new guideline from the American Cancer Society (ACS), replaced by testing for human papillomaviruses (HPV), the cause of cervical cancer. This shift follows declining cervical cancer risk in young women resulting from HPV vaccination over the past 15 years. The […]

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Medicaid-Expanded States Diagnose Breast Cancer at Earlier Stage

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Patients in states with expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act saw a higher percentage of women with breast cancer diagnosed at an earlier stage of disease. Expansion of Medicaid was associated with both a reduced number of uninsured patients and a decrease in the incidence of advanced-stage breast cancer. A particular benefit was

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Black women more likely to be diagnosed with aggressive type 2 endometrial cancer

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In‌ a study of nearly 28,000 cases of endometrial cancer diagnosed in Florida during 2005 to 2016, Black women were far more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 endometrial cancer than Whites, Hispanics, and Asians. Black women were also more likely to die from type 2 endometrial cancer than other women. A small number

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“Endometrial cancer harbors one of the worst disparities for African-American women”

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University of North Carolina researchers are launching a major initiative to track 1,000 women across North Carolina with endometrial cancer to understand why the cancer is increasing in incidence and mortality, and why the disease is more deadly for some women than others. “Endometrial cancer does harbor one of the worst disparities for African-American women,”

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Study of prostate cancer genes in 686 men of African descent

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Researchers have identified genes that are more frequently altered in prostate tumors from men of African ancestry compared to other racial groups, in the largest study of its kind to date. The reasons for these differences is not known, say the researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, and Northwestern

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Cervical cancer screening rates too low among Asian American women

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Cervical cancer screening rates are suboptimal among Asian American women, despite considerable efforts to improve Pap test screening, said Carolyn Y. Fang of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Temple University’s Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. These patients have barriers to cancer screening use, which may be affected by multiple factors, including

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We can’t ever go to the doctor with our guard down

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The toxic combination of sexism and racism is visible at every step of a Black woman’s experience as she develops breast cancer, from the preventive care she is less likely to receive to the treatments that are less available to her. Black women are at higher risk for a particularly aggressive type of “triple-negative” breast

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Prostate cancer trial participants were 96% white men

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An analysis of 59 prostate cancer clinical trials based in North America and Europe found that the vast majority of enrollees were white men. The proportion of white participants in prostate cancer clinical trials has largely remained above 80 percent since 1990, while the proportion of black or African American men in these trials decreased

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Breast cancer gene mutations same in Black and White women

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The genetic mutations that can increase breast cancer risk are the same for both Black and white women, which means that currently available genetic tests are effective for Black women. Three of the most well-known genes that can mutate and raise the risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer are BRCA1, BRCA2, and PALB2. Women who

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Smoking rates highest among American Indians and Alaska Natives

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Rates of smoking among American Indians and Alaska Nativesare higher than for other US adults. On the basis of data from the 2016 National Health Interview Survey from the the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 31.8% of American Indian and Alaska Native adults smoke. In contrast, the rates of smoking were

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