News tagged with cancer mortality
Lack of Social Interaction Affects Health Outcomes of Breast Cancer
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Social environment can play an important role in the biology of disease, including breast cancer, and lead to significant differences in health outcome, according to results of a study published in Cancer Pr ...
Cancer mortality rates experience steady decline
Aug 13, 2009 |
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The number of cancer deaths has declined steadily in the last three decades. Although younger people have experienced the steepest declines, all age groups have shown some improvement, according to a recent report in Cancer Re ...
Certain states more aggressive with anti-smoking policies
Apr 08, 2009 |
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A new study published in the journal Contemporary Economic Policy assesses the impact of state attributes on the likelihood that a state adopts policies to limit youth access to tobacco. Across nine different measures of you ...
Study quantifies racial disparities in cancer mortality rates between blacks and whites
Mar 20, 2009 |
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African Americans have a shorter life expectancy than whites, and cancer plays a major role in this disparity. African Americans are more prone to get cancer; they tend to present at a later, deadlier stage; and they have ...
PSA screening cuts deaths by 20 percent
Mar 18, 2009 |
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Screening for prostate cancer can reduce deaths by 20%, according to the results of the European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) published online 1700 hours CET, today 18 March (NEJM, Online First*). ...
Mail and electronic reminders may increase colon cancer screening
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Mailed reminders to patients appear to promote colon cancer screening, according to a report in the February 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. In addition, electronic reminders to ...
Economic cost of cancer mortality is high in US, regardless of how cost is measured
Dec 09, 2008 |
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The economic cost of death due to cancer is high in the United States, regardless of whether researchers estimate the economic impact in lost work productivity or in a more global measure using the value of one year of life, ...
Drop in cancer deaths tied primarily to gains in behavior and screening
Dec 02, 2008 |
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Improvements in behavior and screening have contributed greatly to the 13 percent decline in cancer mortality since 1990, with better cancer treatments playing a supporting role, according to new research from David Cutler ...
Study finds racial disparities increasing for cancers unrelated to smoking
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A new American Cancer Society study finds that recent progress in closing the gap in overall cancer mortality between African Americans and whites may be due primarily to smoking-related cancers, and that cancer mortality ...
Higher education associated with greater gains in mortality reduction from common cancers
Jul 08, 2008 |
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Deaths due to the four most common cancers—lung, colorectal, prostate, and breast—have dropped substantially in the United States from 1993 to 2001 in working-aged individuals. However, not all Americans are equally likely ...
