Cancer Prevention News

Amid lockdowns, many countries implemented a suspension of routine surveillance for colorectal cancer, resulting in fewer diagnoses in older patients with more complications, according to a presentation during UEG Week Virtual.

Prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer among men in the United States, with one in eight men diagnosed with the condition during his lifetime, data from the American Cancer Society show.

To advance health equity, it is time to normalize the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) data in clinical practice and in health services research.

Standard cancer care may fail to adequately address the needs of LGBTQ+ individuals, who face substantial disparities in access to screening, treatment and outcomes.

Hispanic adults had lower rates of overall cancer incidence between 2014 and 2018, but higher rates of liver and stomach cancers compared with whites, according to study results published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Between 2015 and 2018, the proportion of parents and caregivers who refused the HPV vaccine for their adolescents due to safety concerns increased 79.9%, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

The overall quality of YouTube videos that researchers watched about prostate cancer screening in Black men was suboptimal, a recent analysis showed.

While on-site at a same-day cancer screening program he helped to implement, Timothy Craig Allen, MD, JD, FCAP, came across a crying woman.

Use of antibiotics appeared consistently associated with higher subsequent risk for proximal colon cancer, according to results of a nationwide, population-based study published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Patients were more likely to express preference for a same-sex endoscopy team member than a same-sex endoscopist, according to survey results published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.