Oncology News

Women aged 69 years who underwent surgery for high-risk breast cancer received recommendations for adjuvant radiation therapy nearly two times more often than women a year older undergoing the same procedure, study results showed.

January marks Cervical Health Awareness Month, which brings attention to common diseases of the cervix — cervical cancer and HPV specifically — and the people affected by and measures that can be taken to prevent them.

Cancer burden among older adults with type 2 diabetes has increased in the past 2 decades while all-cause mortality rates at all ages have decreased, according to a 20-year population-based study published in Diabetologia.

Since 2008, the rate of bilateral mastectomy among patients with early-stage breast cancer increased, decreased and finally stabilized with similar rates in 2020 as 2008, according to data published in JAMA Network Open.

Postmenopausal female cancer survivors experienced faster declines in physical function compared with postmenopausal women who never had cancer, according to study results published in JAMA Oncology.

Among California patients with cervical cancer, women aged 65 years and older had a greater disease burden compared with younger women, researchers reported.

Among women eligible for Denmark’s national breast cancer screening program, those who had an intellectual disability were less likely to undergo recommended screening, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Among patients with breast cancer in China, those who underwent adjuvant endocrine therapy had more prevalent and more severe menopausal symptoms, according to data published in Menopause.

This year, women’s health care providers have faced challenges that developed throughout the year, from the lingering COVID-19 pandemic to a changing legal landscape.

This year, researchers found that of patients with high-risk, early-stage ovarian cancer, 72% had one or more symptoms and 28% were asymptomatic.