Oncology News

Gestational diabetes is associated with a high risk for long-term CV outcomes, according to a presentation at The Pregnancy Meeting this year.

Among Healio Women’s Health & OB/GYN content, abortion-related articles were some of the most read content this year.

Long travel times to facilities offering mammography substantially limited accessibility to breast cancer screening, particularly for women living in rural areas, according to data published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The commercial insurance costs for breast reconstruction vary greatly across the United States, with less competitive markets and large, for-profit and nonsafety-net hospitals seeing the highest rates.

Tamoxifen use in the treatment of breast cancer was associated with greater risks for endometrial cancer, hyperplasia and polyps, as well as other uterine cancers among premenopausal women in Korea, according to study data.

One in five women with high-deductible health insurance plans who had an abnormal screening mammogram would opt out of follow-up testing, according to survey results presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting.

Despite decreases in cervical cancer screenings between 1999 and 2019 among older women with Medicare fee-for-service coverage, this group may be overspending on screening-related services, according to data in JAMA Internal Medicine.

SAN ANTONIO — Young women with early hormone receptor-positive breast cancer who temporarily stopped endocrine therapy to attempt pregnancy experienced similar short-term recurrence risk as those who did not stop, according to study results.

During their lifetime, one in 70 women will receive a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, which is the second most common gynecologic cancer in the United States, according to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

More than one in four women reported that the COVID-19 pandemic limited their primary care access, and one in six women reported disruptions to their gynecologic care specifically, survey findings showed.