Add Your Heading Text Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vhDWPTQams Hi, my name is Dr Jonathan Jackson. I’m the founder and executive director of the Community Access Recruitment and Engagement or Care Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I’ve designed and run clinical trials but more importantly, I’ve also participated as a study volunteer in […]
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Less than 6 percent of eligible Americans have undergone lung cancer screening, according to the American Lung Association, a situation that is “simply unacceptable,” says Hossein Borghaei, D.O., chief of the division of thoracic medical oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia. An estimated 14.2 million Americans meet the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
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PSA screening rates for prostate cancer declined from 2005 to 2019 for millions of men in 128 facilities of the Veterans Administration health system, while at the same time diagnoses of advanced prostate cancer increased by 72 percent. The greater the decrease in yearly screening in facilities, the greater the subsequent rate of metastatic prostate
Women who reported frequent use of hair straightening products, more than four times in a year, were more than twice as likely to go on to develop uterine cancer compared to those who did not use the products. That’s the finding of an study of nearly 34,000 U.S. women ages 35 to 74. Approximately 60%
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While 4 in 5 women recognize a lump in the breast as a sign of breast cancer, most women are unaware of the unusual symptoms of the particularly aggressive and deadly form of the disease known as inflammatory breast cancer. That’s according to an online 2022 survey of 1,100 U.S. women ages 18 and older.
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The past decade has witnessed a rapid expansion of genetic tests, including new instruments to inform patients who have been diagnosed with breast cancer about the risk of recurrence and to guide their treatment. But the clinical significance of many of the inherited mutations that can now be identified remains unclear, and experts are torn
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Definitive biological links between African ancestry and disease processes that affect an aggressive cancer type called triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) have been identified by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. Their analysis of TNBC tumors from a diverse patient population yielded a large set of genes whose expression differed in patients with African ancestry compared with patients
Annual PSA prostate cancer screening may be particularly important for Black men, suggests a new study of 45,834 veterans, aged 55–69 years, who were diagnosed with prostate cancer between 2004 and 2017. The study found that annual prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening significantly reduced the risk of dying from prostate cancer among Black men but not
A prominent Detroit Black pastor was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars, allegedly from tobacco giant RJ Reynolds, to lead a campaign against banning the sale of menthol cigarettes in the U.S. The company sells America’s most popular brand of menthol cigarettes, Newport. The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban the sale
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Asian and Black women who received an incomplete score on their mammograms were more likely than White or Hispanic women to either delay their follow-up imaging beyond the recommended 60-day timeframe or forego it completely, according to a study of 4,500 women. Those who completed their forms in Spanish were also found to forego or
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