Breast cancer screening rates from January 2021 to October 2021 did not return to pre-pandemic levels, resulting in 68,000 missed breast cancer screenings, according to a new study. In addition to the human toll of not detecting cancer early, when cancers are found at an advanced stage they are more extensive, more likely to spread […]
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Despite their higher risks of advanced prostate cancer, Black and Latinx men are under-represented on websites and in online videos providing information and education regarding prostate cancer, according to a study led by Stacy Loeb of New York University, MD (above). Of 1,500 pictured on 81 websites and 127 YouTube videos about prostate cancer, White
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Rising rates of obesity and physical inactivity have a much greater impact on increasing the risk for endometrial cancer than for ovarian cancer. Meanwhile, major advances in treatment have improved the survival of women with ovarian cancer. while uterine cancer survival has remained stagnant for 40 years. Another reason is much less research in endometrial
Breast cancer screening rates from January 2021 to October 2021 did not return to pre-pandemic levels, resulting in 9,000 missed cervical cancer screenings, according to a new study. In addition to the human toll of not detecting cancer early, when cancers are found at an advanced stage they are more extensive, more likely to spread
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Breast cancer screening rates from January 2021 to October 2021 did not return to pre-pandemic levels, resulting in 27,000 missed colorectal cancer screenings, according to a new study. In addition to the human toll of not detecting cancer early, when cancers are found at an advanced stage they are more extensive, more likely to spread
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Nearly half of Georgia’s counties lack an OB-GYN and 7 rural hospitals have closed since 2010. More than 250,000 Georgians are uninsured because they can’t find an affordable option, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Georgia is one of 12 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid, which would mean more residents with low incomes would have
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“The rate of uterine cancer is increasing very significantly—about 2.5% every year—in Black women, but it’s not increasing significantly in White women,” says Cortney Eakin, MD of the University of California at Los Angeles. “If those were all low-risk, grade 1, endometrioid tumors that typically have a good prognosis, that’s one thing. But it turns
The quality of care for breast cancer depends much more on where in the country women are treated than on their race or ethnicity. That’s the finding from an analysis of the medical records of nearly 32,000 women diagnosed with stage I to stage III breast cancer from 2007 through 2013. Researchers compared diagnosis at
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A new study showing that the percent of women overdue for cervical screening has nearly doubled since 2005 is a “catastrophe,” says cancer specialist Maurie Markman, MD (above) of the Cancer Treatment Centers of America. “We have the potential of coming as close to eliminating a cancer as one can come to,” he said. The
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“There is a significant disparity in the knowledge that we have about the tumor landscape of colorectal cancer among Hispanics,” says Mariana Stern, PhD, of the University of Southern California Norris Cancer Center (above). “This has implications for the development of new therapies that may specifically benefit Hispanic patients. A new 5-year $18.5 million study
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