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June 20, 2023
Cancer risk and care disparities are often higher in the LGBTQIA+ communityMembers of the LGBTQIA+ community often face higher cancer risks and hurdles to diagnosis, treatment and health care access.
April 25, 2023
What’s the difference? Cancer remission, cure and no evidence of diseaseAs you go through your treatment journey, the information you take in may be overwhelming—and potentially confusing.
April 6, 2023
Research breakthroughs leading to new treatments for blood cancersRemarkable progress in blood cancer treatments has significantly increased survivability rates for these hard-to-treat cancers.
March 6, 2023
What’s driving higher colorectal cancer rates in young adults?While overall cases and deaths have declined, especially among older adults, colorectal cancer diagnoses have increased dramatically among young adults.
January 26, 2023
What’s driving the improvement in U.S. cancer survival rates?The cancer death rate in the U.S. has declined 33 percent since 1991, thanks largely to new treatments, gains in early cancer detection and, most significantly, a sharp decline in tobacco use.
January 24, 2023
The most preventable cancer: How HPV vaccination decreases cervical cancer riskNot only has vaccination proven to be an effective tool in recent years, it’s made cervical cancer one of the most preventable cancers.
January 17, 2023
Why are cancer rates rising in adults under 50?Over the last few decades, doctors have been seeing dramatic increases in cancer in adults younger than 50. The disturbing trend has scientists searching for reasons behind the sharp increase in early-onset cancer, how best to screen for or detect cancers in young adults, whether the cancers are different types of common cancers in older adults and which treatments show promise for younger people.
January 5, 2023
Study: Lifestyle changes may prevent nearly half of the world’s cancer deathsA recent comprehensive global study investigated cancer cases that were attributable to modifiable risk factors. It found that nearly half of cancer deaths worldwide, 44.4 percent, may have been avoidable if the victims had paid attention to factors that raised cancer risk and made lifestyle changes to reduce those risks.
December 27, 2022
HPV vaccine compliance still lags as researchers eye a one-shot protocolVarious factors and a growing mistrust of vaccines are among some of the reasons why HPV vaccine rates may lag behind traditional recommended childhood vaccines
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