Tag: Cancer: Misc.

Black patients have longer time to treatment discontinuation, similar time to next treatment, slightly improved overall survival than White patients

Findings seen in pregnant or postpartum women who receive unusual or nonreportable clinical cell-fee DNA-sequencing results

Stronger effects seen for women from some racial/ethnic minority groups and with lower socioeconomic status

Vaccination of 'mid-adults,' including those at higher risk, results in higher number needed to vaccinate than that seen for younger people

Solutions to address inequity in drug distribution include sharing production secrets, international funding, cost-effective screening

Prevalence lowest for those with thyroid, lung or bronchus, ovarian, and colorectal cancers

Cancer cases and deaths projected to nearly triple in low-HDI countries by 2050 compared with moderate increase in very high-HDI countries

Findings seen for incidence of overall and 14 site-specific cancers

Maximal survival benefit seen for smoking cessation treatment within six months of diagnosis

Likelihood of emergency department use before cancer diagnosis increases with rurality, living in marginalized areas