Cancer Prevention News

Although six out of 10 parents in the United States are getting their children vaccinated against human papillomavirus, many are not completing the vaccination series, leaving them unprotected from HPV-associated cancers, according to data in MMWR.

Childhood cancer survivors appeared significantly less likely to initiate HPV vaccination than their peers despite having an increased risk for HPV-associated cancers, according to a study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The proportion of oropharyngeal cancers associated with HPV in several cancer centers across Canada rose from nearly half to nearly three-quarters over 12 years, according to researchers.

In the United States, HPV is the most common STD, with about one in four individuals infected and each year, approximately 14 million Americans, including adolescents, contract the virus, according to the CDC.

A Surgeon General’s report issued in 2014 linked the increased prevalence of lung adenocarcinomas in the United States to changing cigarette designs, specifically the small filter ventilation holes in “light” cigarettes adopted in the mid-1960s.

Four leading national cancer organizations have united in their mission to reduce the number of health disparities in the United States and to ensure all patients, regardless of social demographics and socioeconomic status, benefit from cancer research, according to a joint position statement published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

The FDA announced a multiyear plan today that could limit the amount of nicotine in cigarettes.

This month, an abundance of new research contributing to better understanding of colorectal cancer risk and interventions to improve screening was presented in the journals and at scientific meetings.

A community-based, preclinical patient navigator program that recruited black men at local barbershops doubled the rate of colorectal cancer screening in this high-risk population.

Adding a financial incentive of $100 to an offer of colonoscopy screening by email increased the screening rate by more than twofold in a randomized control trial.