Cancer Prevention News

Women with invasive cervical cancer demonstrated increased risks for iatrogenic and noniatrogenic injuries during diagnostic workup, according to results of a study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

About 12% of elective colonoscopies during a recent 5-year period led to out-of-network claims that averaged hundreds of dollars more than the typical insurance payment, data in Annals of Internal Medicine show.

American Association for Cancer Research honored Lourdes A. Báezconde-Garbanati, PhD, with the AACR Distinguished Lectureship on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Stephen Gruber, MD, PhD, MPH, has been appointed director of City of Hope’s newly founded Center for Precision Medicine.

Quadrivalent HPV vaccination substantially reduced the risk for invasive cervical cancer among Swedish girls and women aged 10 to 30 years, according to results of a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

How much risk is too much? It depends on what is at stake.

iCanQuit, an acceptance and commitment therapy-based smoking cessation app, helped more smokers quit than the National Cancer Institute’s QuitGuide, a U.S. clinical practice guidelines app based on avoidance of smoking triggers, data show.

An intervention geared toward low-income patients in the primary care setting helped the participants lose weight, according to results from a randomized trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Adolescents and young adults who used both e-cigarettes and combustible cigarettes were seven times more likely to acquire COVID-19, data show.

American Institute for Cancer Research awarded approximately $1.3 million in grants to support eight projects intended to improve the understanding of the effects of lifestyle factors on cancer prevention and survivorship.