Cancer Prevention News

President Joe Biden today announced his intention to appoint oncologist, researcher and educator, W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, as director of the NCI.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A digital risk assessment tool and genetic testing program can be helpful in identifying patients with high-risk cancer susceptibility syndromes, according to a presenter at the ACG Annual Scientific Meeting.

HONOLULU — Adults faced a higher risk for incident cancer if their Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire score deviated from the median score, signaling circadian disturbances, according to research presented at the CHEST Annual Meeting.

ORLANDO — Multicancer detection tests have the potential to boost screening rates and reduce mortality, but questions remain about whether they would create additional barriers of their own, according to speakers at OMED.

In this episode, host Shikha Jain, MD, speaks with Douglas Micalizzi, MD, and Lecia Sequist, MD, about adopting novel technologies for early detection, public perception of prevention screening and more.

Being breastfed in infancy was associated with a 23% increased risk for colorectal cancer in adulthood, especially among women younger than 50 years, according to a study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

When all eligible patients were automatically referred for breast cancer screening, mammography completion did not improve, but staff burden worsened, according to the results of research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Roughly one-third of men globally have at least one type of genital HPV and one in five are infected with at least one high-risk HPV type, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Just over a quarter of patients overdue for colorectal cancer screening received a recommendation from their clinician to get screened, according to the results of research published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

With the exception of sigmoidoscopy, common cancer screening tests do not appear to extend patients’ lifetimes, according to the results of research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.