Age-adjusted cancer mortality rates decreased from 2000 to 2020
Jan 18, 2024
Racial and ethnic disparities, however, persisted for various cancers, including prostate, male lung and bronchus, and female colorectal cancer.
FDA approves AI device that helps spot skin cancer
Jan 18, 2024
Along with helping to spot melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, the device can also assess moles for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
Inflammation, poverty have synergistic effect on mortality
Jan 17, 2024
Individuals with elevated C-reactive protein at 1.0 mg/dL and poverty had a greater risk for 15-year all-cause mortality.
1975 to 2019 saw 58 percent decrease in breast cancer mortality
Jan 16, 2024
Of the reduction, 29% was due to treatment of metastatic breast cancer and 25% was due to mammography screening.
Substance use disorders on the rise for survivors of specific cancers
Jan 13, 2024
Prevalence of SUD highest in survivors of head and neck, esophageal and gastric, cervical cancers, and melanoma
Acute hospital care at home shows promise for medically complex patients
Jan 08, 2024
At 30 days after discharge, the mortality rate was 3.2% and skilled nursing facility use rate was 2.6%.
Artificial intelligence risk model validated for predicting breast cancer
Jan 04, 2024
Cancers were more likely diagnosed after two years of follow-up in women at high risk.
Colorectal screening rates do not differ by 10-year life expectancy in seniors
Dec 06, 2023
The authors say that screening based on individual life expectancy, rather than age, may improve screening selection and value.
EPA proposes removing 100 percent of lead pipes from US water system
Nov 30, 2023
Utility companies expected to cover most of the cost, but there is $15 billion available in the 2021 infrastructure law to help
Incidence of local-stage cancers decreased from 2019 to 2022
Nov 22, 2023
The incidence decreased significantly for 19 of 22 cancer types, deviating from stable year-over-year changes pre-COVID-19.
