Most adults in US overdue for colorectal cancer screening report not receive a screening recommendation from their clinician despite having attended a wellness visit in the past year, in a study of more than 5,000 adults. Black, Hispanic and Asian patients were significantly less likely to be reminded compared with White patients. The study showed …
Residents of 3,712 redlined U.S. census-tracts, especially in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, were 64 percent less likely than residents living in A (“Best”) areas to meet colorectal cancer screening targets. Poverty, lack of education and limited English proficiency were among the most significant barriers. See “Historic redlining practices cast a long …
Less than seven percent of cancer patients in California and Georgia underwent genetic testing within two years of diagnosis, despite guidelines recommending genetic testing in the majority of patients. Allison Kurian, MD (above), of the Stanford University Medical School and her colleagues reviewed the records of nearly 1.4 million patients in California and Georgia diagnosed …
Black patients with advanced colorectal cancer had a 12.6% reduction in mortality in Medicaid-expansion states, compared with a 6.1% reduction in nonexpanded states. Naveen Manisundaram, MD (above), and his colleagues at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston analyzed data from the National Cancer Database to compare mortality rates for patients with …
Four important signs and symptoms that signal an elevated risk of early-onset colorectal cancer have been identified from health insurance data on more than 5,000 patients with early-onset colorectal cancer. This is cancer that occurs before a person turns 50. The number of young adults with colorectal cancer has nearly doubled in recent years. Researchers …
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 …
Racial and ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer continue, with Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Black individuals experiencing the highest incidence and mortality rates compared to White patients. The incidence of colorectal cancer is highest in people who are Alaskan Native (88.5 per 100,000), Native American (46.0 per 100,000), or Black (41.7 per 100,000) vs White …
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Colorectal cancer screenings in the United States increased between 6 percent and 8 percent and breast cancer screening rates increased up to 4 percent from 2012 and 2019 where local where paid sick leave was mandated. The analysis included workers who already had paid sick leave, meaning they were unlikely to decrease or increase cancer …
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Rates of colorectal cancer in certain parts of rural Alaska are up to two and a half times as high as the state average. Patients in those rural areas appear to be getting diagnosed so late that the cancers are well advanced before they are identified, according to a new report for the years from …
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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 …
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