Cancer Prevention News

High-grade vulvar, vaginal and anal precancer rates decreased or stabilized after the introduction of the HPV vaccine, according to findings published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Researchers at Cleveland Clinic have initiated a first-of-its-kind study of a vaccine designed to ultimately prevent triple-negative breast cancer — the deadliest form of the disease.

Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women, according to WHO. In 2018, it caused an estimated 311,000 deaths worldwide.

Studies that have found a link between smoking and COVID-19 severity provide a new reason for primary care physicians to keep talking to their patients about ways to quit smoking, an expert told Healio.

The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recently issued a universal recommendation that all adults aged 19 to 59 years receive the hepatitis B vaccine.

About one in four primary care clinicians surveyed preferred a stool-based test to a colonoscopy for colorectal cancer screening, according to findings published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

The protective effect of a single flexible sigmoidoscopy screening in older adults was maintained for up 15 years against colorectal cancer incidence and for up to 19 years against mortality, according to a randomized controlled trial.

The William L. McGuire Lecture Award will be presented to Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD, FAACR, at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium this month.

Maternal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, was associated with a higher risk for late-onset preeclampsia, according to findings published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

The U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer updated its screening recommendations.