Cancer

PHILADELPHIA — Making sense of real-world data and black-box warnings associated with Janus kinase inhibitors can be challenging for rheumatologists hoping to prescribe these medications, according to a presenter at ACR Convergence 2022.

Medical marijuana legalization enacted from 2012 to 2017 appeared associated with a lower rate of opioid prescriptions and pain-related hospitalization among some adults being treated for newly diagnosed cancer, according to a study.

Many Americans lack awareness of the association between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk, according to study results published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention.

Increasing costs of cancer care and greater cost-sharing resulted in higher out-of-pocket costs for nonelderly, privately insured patients with breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers, according to study results.

Androgen deprivation therapy sequencing had a considerable effect on outcomes among men with prostate cancer who received prostate-only radiotherapy, according to study results published in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Prior authorization has widespread negative impacts on cancer care, an ASCO survey of oncology providers showed.

A new clinical practice guideline jointly published by ASCO and Society for Integrative Oncology addresses the potential role of integrative pain management techniques in management of cancer-related pain in adults.

Medicare Advantage beneficiaries who required surgery for stomach, pancreas or liver cancers had lower access to high-volume hospitals than those enrolled in traditional Medicare plans, according to study results.

Prostate cancer clinical trials included significant underrepresentation of Asian, Black and Hispanic men based on incidence of the disease among these groups, results of meta-analysis published in JAMA Oncology showed.

Overall cancer mortality among American Indian/Alaska Native individuals appeared higher than among white individuals despite similar cancer incidence, according to findings published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.