Cancer Prevention News

The FDA issued warning letters to 14 U.S. companies that the agency contends are selling products fraudulently claimed to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure cancer.

An estimated 30% to 43% of black men develop asymptomatic prostate cancer by the age of 85 years, making them 28% to 56% more likely to develop preclinical prostate cancer than men of other races, according to results of a modeling study published in Cancer.

Verily Life Sciences LLC announced the launch of a 4-year study in partnership with Duke University School of Medicine and Stanford Medicine to gain a better understanding of the transition of an individual being healthy to a becoming ill.

Researchers estimate that undergoing colonoscopy within the previous 10 years prevented death from colorectal cancer in about 50,400 Americans and about 25,600 Germans aged 55 to 79 years between 2008 and 2011.

More than one in four adults and nearly one in 10 young adults in the United States report some form of tobacco use.

A telephone-based counseling intervention following lung cancer screening increased cessation rates among current smokers, according to study results published in Lung Cancer.

Higher dietary intake of rice bran and navy beans resulted in changes to the gut microbiome and reduced colorectal cancer cell growth in colorectal cancer survivors, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

CMS included Cologuard, an FDA-approved, non-invasive colon cancer screening test created by Exact Sciences Corp., in its 2017 Medicare Advantage Star Ratings program, according to a recent press release.

Adults with certain disabilities are less likely to undergo recommended colorectal cancer screening compared with individuals without disabilities, according to the results of a 10-year study.

International and private sector collaboration, as well as the $1.8 billion in federal funding directed toward the NIH as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, are two major accomplishments of the national cancer moonshot initiative achieved in the past year, according to former Vice President Joe Biden.