Do your patients live in a food swamp?Areas with more fast food, convenience stores, fewer supermarkets linked to more cancer. New hope in the fight against lung cancerA study involving researchers from Montreal hospitals suggests that immunotherapy treatment, specifically pembrolizumab, can slow the progression and reduce the risk of recurrence in the most common form of lung cancer. Pharmacists in shared care model reduce ambulatory patient visits for oncologists Medication assessment by pharmacists may be an effective strategy to alleviate projected shortages of oncology providers. Some antibiotics associated with acute graft-vs-host disease risk after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation Microbiota injury that may be key. Should there be routine screening for skin cancer in healthy adults? Here's what the updated USPSTF guidelines say. New cancer diagnoses down in 2020, possibly due to COVID-19 disruptions: StatCan StatCan data show there were 450 new cases per 100,000 people and that overall, cancer diagnoses among males fell by 13.2%. Canadian doctors weigh up U.S. proposal for earlier mammograms Regular mammography screening is currently recommended in both countries for women between the ages of 50 and 74. Women with mental disorders are twice as likely to develop cervical cancer A Swedish population study shows there is a greater need for targeted screening programs. Start mammograms at 40, not 50, a U.S. health panel recommends The task force noted that Black women are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, making mammograms at 40 an especially important step. Quick, accurate, comfortable: Biopsies guided by contrast-enhanced mammography as alternative to using MRIs New technology could replace MRI-guided biopsy, researchers suggest. First Previous 25 26 27 28 29 Next Last
