Many patients who receive a positive stool-based screening test result for colorectal cancer did not follow this up with a colonoscopy within one year, according to a study of nearly 33,000 men and women aged 50 to 75 from 2017 to 2020. Stool-based screening tests are effective, noninvasive alternatives to colonoscopy, but to be effective they […]
Black men had a 29 percent increased risk of dying from prostate cancer, compared with White men, in studies that had only a low accounting for social determinants of health. Conversely, in studies with a high accounting for these factors, Black men had a 14 percent lower risk of dying from prostate cancer compared with
Women who were exposed to Ground Zero after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center and consequently developed uterine cancer, including endometrial cancer, are now eligible for medical coverage and financial compensation from the WTC Health Program. This is a limited federal health program that provides no-cost medical monitoring and treatment for certified WTC-related
Cases of advanced prostate cancer are increasing for the first time in 20 years, according to new data from the American Cancer Society. Cases have increased by 3 percent per year from 2014 to 2019, with the incidence rate higher among Black men compared with White men. The leading cause of this overall increase was
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Cervical cancer rates in women ages 20-24 have fallen an “astounding” 65 percent from 2012 through 2019, in the wake of the introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, according to the American Cancer Society. “The large drop in cervical cancer incidence is extremely exciting because this is the first group of women to receive
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In a survey of 78 primary care providers conducted by Gayathri R. Devi, Ph.D.,(above) and her colleagues at Duke University, most physicians expressed only a moderate ability to recognize inflammatory breast cancer in their patients. Less than a third had ever suspected IBC in a patient. Nearly half thought (wrongly) that a palpable breast mass
In a study of nearly 15,000 cases of type II endometrial cancer between 2007 and 2016, the 5-year cancer-related death rate was 41% for Black women, compared with 32% for White and Hispanic women and 30% for Asian and Pacfic Islander women. The higher death rate was linked primarily to the women’s disease stage, tumor
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Black men with prostate cancer were less likely than White men to receive stereotactic body radiotherapy or moderately hypofractionated external-beam radiotherapy, despite evidence showing that shorter radiotherapy regimens are associated with higher rates of treatment completion. In this study of 170,386 U.S. men with localized prostate cancer who underwent radiation therapy without radical prostatectomy, Black
In a study of 743 Black men diagnosed with prostate cancer at or before age 62, four percent of the men had mutations in one or more of 14 genes that could have contributed to the development of their cancer. Those with these mutations were more likely to have higher PSA levels, more advanced prostate
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Black women comprised only 7% and Hispanic women only 6% of the endometrial cancer clinical trials conducted between 1988 and 2019 that specified the race and ethnicity of participants. During that time period, less than 10% of the trials reported race and 5% reported ethnicity of the women. “The first step in addressing cancer care
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