Cancer Prevention News

Starting January 1, 2017, Humana will cover Cologuard, the FDA-approved multi-target stool DNA test for noninvasive colorectal cancer screening, as an in-network service for its members, most of whom will have access to the test with no co-pay, the manufacturer announced.

For older Americans with high risk for CVD, daily use of low-dose aspirin could result in reduced MI risk, prevention of cancer onset and cancer death, and savings of $692 billion in health care costs over 20 years, according to an analysis.

While gastrointestinal bleeding is the most common adverse event caused by preventive low-dose aspirin regimens, there is no evidence that aspirin increases the frequency of fatal gastrointestinal bleeding, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Moffitt Cancer Center has initiated a nationwide study of individuals who use both conventional and electronic cigarettes.

Some of the same modifiable lifestyle factors associated with the risk for developing conventional adenomas are also associated with the risk for sessile serrated polyps, according to a study led by researchers from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Offering $5 or $10 as an incentive for responding to a mailed invitation to undergo a fecal immunochemical test had no effect on colorectal cancer screening rates, according to a study published in “The Negative Issue” of the American Journal of Gastroenterology, a special edition focusing on what physicians should not do in clinical practice.

Two-dose regimens of Gardasil 9 separated by 6 or 12 months in girls and boys aged 9 to 14 years were noninferior compared with a three-dose regimen of the 9-valent HPV vaccine delivered over 6 months in adolescent girls and young women aged 16 to 26 years, according to the results of a clinical trial.

Using a non-endoscopic device touted as a “sponge-on-a-string” test, researchers were able to identify patients with Barrett’s esophagus who have a low risk for progression to esophageal cancer, allowing them to avoid endoscopic evaluation.

The American Cancer Society honored three people affiliated with Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Nov. 17 is the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. The annual event, held on the third Thursday of each November, is geared towards getting smokers to plan to quit.