MONDAY, June 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Only a fraction of Americans are getting recommended lung cancer screenings, new research shows. While rates overall are up slightly, fewer than 1 in 5 people who are eligible for screening are up-to-date with it, according to the American Cancer Society-led study. TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have shown that artificial intelligence (AI) can identify people who are at risk for lung cancer based on genetic markers in their blood. “We have a simple blood test that could be done in a doctor’s office that would tell patients whetherContinue Reading
SUNDAY, June 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When there’s pain, pressure and pounding in your head, you might think the worst: Is it a brain tumor? Probably not, a Penn State physician assures. Headache in and of itself is not a common sign of a tumor, because the brain itselfContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — One of the biggest obstacles to treating brain cancer is getting tumor-killing drugs past the blood-brain barrier that normally protects the brain from foreign invaders. Now, new research shows that ultrasound waves emitted from a device implanted in a cancer patient’s skull couldContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) can improve doctors’ assessments of mammograms, accurately detecting even the smallest breast cancers with fewer scary false positive readings, a new study shows. AI-assisted mammography detected significantly more breast cancers, with a lower false-positive rate, than doctors assessing mammograms onContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (Healthday News) — People battling advanced esophageal cancers should get doses of chemotherapy both before and after tumor-removing surgeries, a new study suggests. “There is considerable disagreement as to whether giving all adjuvant [chemo] therapy upfront versus ‘sandwich’ adjuvant therapy before and after surgery is theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Telemedicine visits for cancer care could help save the planet while also making things easier on patients, a new study has found. Nationwide, cancer care could generate 33% less greenhouse gas emissions if it shifted to telemedicine from the traditional model of in-patientContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s potential good news for a sizable minority of people battling advanced colon cancer. Doctors in Britain say that an immunotherapy drug, given before surgery, can help many more patients with a specific genetic profile stay cancer-free long term. The finding pertains toContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A cutting-edge class of drugs is saving and extending the lives of cancer patients. But the drugs, called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), are so expensive that some uninsured Americans can’t access them, a new report finds. New policies are needed “to improve healthContinue Reading
FRIDAY, May 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — While LGBTQ+ people have higher risk factors for cancer, they are apt to face discrimination when in need of high-quality medical care, a new report shows. In particular, LGBTQ+ people have to worry that a health care provider will refuse to treat themContinue Reading