Cancer Prevention

The Association of Cancer Care Centers launched a fundraising initiative to support the Firefighter Cancer Support Network.

The new blood test screening option for colorectal cancer is innovative and could improve screening uptake, but it also has some drawbacks, according to an expert.

Two women in oncology have been named recipients of the International Gynecologic Cancer Society’s 2024 Global Humanitarian Award.

Individuals with unhealthy lifestyles may derive the most benefit from aspirin for colorectal cancer prevention, according to results of a prospective cohort study.

Informing patients of the benefit-harm balance associated with mammography screening is beneficial and did not hinder overall screening decisions, according to results of a national probability-based U.S. survey.

Sabrina Korentager, MSN, RN, BS, CLT-UE, never imagined a conversation with a cancer survivor would catapult her career from an oncology nurse to co-founding the Lymphedema Prevention Program at The University of Kansas Cancer Center.

Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, FASCO, will be awarded the 2024 ASCO-American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Award during the American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Since I launched this blog, I have regularly written about months. For example, I have often written about April, being my birth month (and my daughter’s birth month, same day) and the birth month of multiple family members and close friends.

Considering conflicting clinical guidelines, primary care providers should focus on individualized decision-making when deciding if and when a patient should be screened for breast cancer, according to experts.

Conservative political views correlated with a lower likelihood of having trust in cancer information disseminated by government health agencies vs. those who have liberal views, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.