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Metastatic Cancer Survival No Better at Practices With Higher NQF 0210 Rates

WEDNESDAY, May 22, 2024 – For patients with metastatic or advanced cancer, treatment at practices with higher rates of National Quality Forum (NQF) 0210 (patients receiving chemotherapy in the last...

Deadly GallBladder Cancers Rising Among Black Americans

TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 – Gallbladder cancer rates are steadily increasing among Black Americans, even as they remain stable or decline for most other Americans, a new study warns. Further, growing...

Survival Benefit for Cancer Trial Participants Does Not Persist in Adjusted Analyses

TUESDAY, May 21, 2024 – In studies using designs addressing sources of bias and confounding, there is no evidence of a survival benefit for cancer trial participants, according to a study published...

Global Life Expectancy Could Rise By More Than 4 Years by 2050

FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 – Life expectancy around the world is expected to increase by nearly 5 years in men and more than 4 years in women during the next three decades, researchers predict. These...

AI Chatbots Can Generate Quality, Empathetic, Readable Responses

FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 – For patient questions about cancer, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can generate quality, empathetic, and readable responses, according to a study published online May...

Most Cancer Treatments Near End of Life Are Useless: Study

FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 – Cutting-edge cancer treatments are essentially useless for patients barely clinging to life, a new study shows. Chemotherapies, immunotherapies, targeted therapies and hormone...

Plant-Based Diets Lower Risk of Heart Trouble, Cancer and Death

THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 – Following a vegetarian or vegan diet might just buy you a longer, healthier life, a new review finds. Staying away from meat was tied to a reduced risk of heart disease,...

Report Highlights Big Gaps in Cancer Outcomes Based on Race

WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 – U.S. cancer death rates are continuing to drop, falling by 33% between 1991 and 2020. However, not all Americans are reaping the benefits from advances in cancer...

AACR Delivers Report on Disparities in Cancer Progress

WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 – In its biennial Cancer Disparities Progress Report published today, the American Association for Cancer Research presents the latest statistics on disparities in cancer...

Cancer & COVID Drove Him to Double-Lung Transplant

MONDAY, May 13, 2024 – Chicago resident Arthur “Art” Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility. “I was hospitalized for 1...

Lower Prevalence of Employment Seen for Survivors of Childhood Cancer

FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 – Adult survivors of childhood cancer have declines in employment and increases in health-related unemployment compared with the general population, according to a study...

Oral Rinse Might Alert Doctors to Stomach Cancers

FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 – A quick swish at the doctor’s office could someday provide early detection of stomach cancer, the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, a new study reports. R...

Cancer Patients Often Face Medical Debt, Even With Insurance

FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 – When cancer strikes, you could easily go into debt, even with health insurance in place, according to a new survey from the American Cancer Society. The survey, based on...

His Cancer Journey Shows Health Dangers Firefighters Face

FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 – For 14 years, David Perez fought fires in South Florida, thinking he was in peak physical shape. Then a routine physical turned up anomalies in his blood work that turned his...

Symptom Burden Prevalent in Childhood Cancer Survivors

THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 – Symptom burden is prevalent among young childhood cancer survivors, with caregiver anxiety and greater neighborhood deprivation associated with greater symptom burden,...

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