Cancer Prevention News

The ability of the Affordable Care Act to provide adequate insurance coverage and access to health care for Americans with chronic medical conditions is concerning due to large remaining gaps, according to researchers in Annals of Internal Medicine.

In his editorial in this issue, Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, expresses exasperation with the field of cancer epidemiology — noting, in particular, its large number of seemingly duplicative studies and the “litany of papers reporting weak associations.”

Editor’s note: To read a response to this editorial from Amanda I. Phipps, MPH, PhD, see her commentary. To read HemOnc Today’s coverage of the research by Phipps and colleagues, click here.

Long-term use of aspirin was associated with a reduced risk for colorectal cancer, but an increased risk for gastrointestinal bleeding, highlighting the need to weigh the risks and benefits of prophylactic aspirin use, according to data presented at the Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Promotion of fecal immunochemical testing by community health workers was successful in increasing screening rates among Haitians and Hispanics, according to findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Patients who have a false positive Cologuard test result followed by a negative colonoscopy did not have higher rates of subsequent cancer or death compared with true negative patients, according to results from the LONG-HAUL cohort study.

Most adults who received elevated direct-to-consumer personal genomic testing to detect risk for single nucleotide polymorphism–based cancer were not more likely to undergo cancer screening or change their lifestyle, according to results of the Impact of Personal Genomics Study.

The risk for dying of cervical cancer appears higher than previously believed, especially among blacks and older women, according to new research published in Cancer.

Previously unseen and persuasive vignettes helped study participants better understand the USPSTF’s 2012 recommendations on prostate cancer screening and 2009 recommendations on mammography screening, according to research recently published in Annals of Family Medicine.

An estimated 34.8 million American men aged 18 to 59 years are infected with some form of genital HPV and one in four men have high-risk HPV, according to a National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey reported in JAMA Oncology.