Cancer Prevention News

A slight reduction in absolute smoking prevalence in the United States would result in “substantial” Medicaid savings the following year, according to findings recently published in JAMA Network Open.

PHILADELPHIA — The role e-cigarettes play on tobacco dependence, the morbidity and potentially mortality from tobacco is “unclear,” a speaker said at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — An approach to smoking cessation that treats nicotine addiction as a medical condition that must be controlled is usually more effective than other smoking cessation methods, a speaker at the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine meeting said.

PHILADELPHIA — Most health care providers are “blind” to the proper way of preventing and stopping smoking among teenagers, according to a speaker at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting.

Although cancer death rates in the U.S. continue to decline, biennial research from the American Cancer Society shows that nearly half of all cancer deaths involve disease with known modifiable risk factors.

The use of pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for HIV prevention was associated with an increase in the incidence of STIs among gay and bisexual men during a multi-year study conducted in Australia, according to findings published today in JAMA.

While adequate intake of certain nutrients derived from food was associated with lower all-cause mortality, nutrients derived from supplements were not, according to findings published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In 2017, a poor diet, defined as one high in sodium and low in whole grains and fruits, contributed to 11 million deaths globally, accounting for roughly one of every five deaths , according to research published in The Lancet.

ATLANTA — Adults at high risk for HIV infection based on injectable drug use or high-risk sexual behavior showed low rates of HPV vaccination, according to study results presented at American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

March may be National Nutrition Month, but the way to obtain a healthy lifestyle through nutrition, or the determinants certain foods and drinks can cause, is the subject of research throughout the year.