Cancer Prevention News

Study participants who were randomly assigned to receive cocoa flavanol supplementation had a 27% lower risk for cardiovascular death than those assigned to placebo, according to data published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Research suggests the gut microbiome plays a role in response to cancer immunotherapy, according to a study published in Nature Medicine.

In a Healio video exclusive, Gerard Mullin, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology and hepatology at Johns Hopkins University, told Healio that taller adults may have an increased risk for colorectal cancer.

Medical device company Medtronic and the ASGE have collaborated to create the Medtronic Health Equity Assistance Program, which aims to improve access to colorectal cancer screening technologies in underserved U.S. communities.

In patients with inflammatory bowel disease, colonoscopy within 3 years before colorectal cancer diagnosis was linked with early tumor stage detection, while colonoscopy within 1 year reduced overall all-cause mortality, according to data.

In a press room briefing, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. proclaimed March 2022 to be National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month and announced the creation of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.

Eating meat five times or less per week was linked to a lower overall risk for cancer, according to observational findings published in BMC Medicine.

Screening for hepatocellular carcinoma is critical in high-risk patients, according to a presentation at GUILD conference 2022.

Use of aspirin failed to prolong invasive DFS among patients with breast cancer, according to results of a randomized phase 3 study presented during the ASCO Plenary Series.

February is National Cancer Prevention Month.