Cancer Prevention News

Results of a phase 3 trial recently published in Clinical Infectious Diseases showed that the quadrivalent HPV vaccine was not effective in preventing new anal infections or improving high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in adults aged 27 years or older with HIV.

Healthy women who carried the BRCA1 mutation had reduced risk for developing breast cancer and mortality if they underwent bilateral risk-reducing mastectomy, according to results of a prospective study presented at the European Breast Cancer Conference.

Paul F. Engstrom, MD, FACP, will receive the Prevent Cancer Foundation’s Laurels Award for Lifetime Achievement in Cancer Prevention.

The number of men receiving one or more components of shared decision making as part of the prostate cancer screening process increased less than 4% between 2010 and 2015, according to new study findings published in Annals of Family Medicine.

HPV vaccination rates increased substantially among adolescent and young adult males in the first 6 years after routine vaccination was recommended for males in the United States in 2011, researchers reported in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Health care providers appeared significantly less likely to recommend the HPV vaccine to boys than girls, according to study results presented at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology Annual Meeting on Women’s Cancer.

Clinicians should counsel children, their parents and young adults on the use of sun protective behaviors for the prevention of skin cancer, according to a final recommendation statement from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Clinical risk factors may help guide colorectal cancer screening for average-risk individuals with no family history of the disease, according to new research publish in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

There was significant discrepancy between patient-reported full-body skin exams, physician reports of these exams, and documentation of the exams in patient charts, according to study findings presented at the American Academy of Dermatology annual meeting.

Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D appeared to increase the risk for premalignant serrated polyps — specifically, sessile serrated adenomas and polyps — in patients with a history of colorectal adenomas, according to data from a recently completed chemoprevention trial.