Cancer Prevention News

Individuals who ate more “ultra-processed” foods showed a higher risk for cancer in a large prospective study of adults in France.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not recommend ovarian cancer screening for asymptomatic women who are not known to have a high-risk hereditary cancer syndrome.

Living in ethnically or racially segregated neighborhoods appeared associated with a reduced risk for breast and colorectal cancers among Asian or Hispanic patients, but an increased risk for cancers with infectious origins, study data showed.

Only about half of medical students graduated with knowledge about the association between HPV infection and head and neck cancer, according to results of a survey.

While the Super Bowl draws the NFL season to a close, several health issues raised around this year’s game remain important for clinicians to consider.

World Cancer Day — which will be observed today — was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control to raise awareness of cancer, as well as to emphasize the importance of prevention, detection and treatment.

Firefighters who take skin decontamination measures immediately after fighting fires may reduce skin absorption of potentially cancer-causing compounds, according to study results.

Bariatric surgery appeared associated with reduced risk for certain obesity-associated malignancies, according to results of a retrospective cohort study.

ASCO has named CAR T-cell immunotherapy as its cancer advance of the year, according to “Clinical Cancer Advances 2018: ASCO’s Annual Report on Progress Against Cancer.”

Patients treated with radioactive iodine for well-differentiated thyroid cancer demonstrated an increased risk for developing acute myeloid leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia, study data showed.