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Jan 29, 2020"The ongoing decline in lung cancer mortality is within our collective grasp"
ATLANTA—January 29, 2019—The New England Journal of Medicine today published the results of the Dutch-Belgian lung cancer screening trial (NELSON). The large trial of more than 15,000 men...
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Jan 27, 2020
The American Cancer Society and Pfizer have approved grants totaling more than $2.5 million in nine communities focused on reducing racial disparities and helping optimize outcomes for women...
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Jan 17, 2020
The American Cancer Society (ACS), the leading organization devoted to creating a world without cancer, will celebrate Coaches vs. Cancer Suits And Sneakers Week Jan. 20-26 during basketball games...
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Jan 8, 2020Drop of 2.2% from 2016 to 2017 is largest ever reported
The cancer death rate declined by 29% from 1991 to 2017, including a 2.2% drop from 2016 to 2017, the largest single-year drop in cancer mortality ever reported. The news comes from Cancer...
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Dec 26, 2019More activity linked to lower risk for several cancer types
A pooled analysis of nine prospective studies involving more than 750,000 adults finds that recommended amounts of leisure-time physical activity were linked to a lower risk for seven cancers,...
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Dec 26, 2019Participants take on the world through newly added World Marathon Challenge
The American Cancer Society (ACS) is widening its opportunities for participants in 2020 through the DetermiNation Endurance Series with the addition of events throughout the country. The...
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Dec 19, 2019Patients under 26 years had a shift to earlier stage; faster time to adjuvant chemotherapy
An Affordable Care Act provision that allowed young adults to be covered under their parents’ insurance led to a shift to earlier-stage diagnosis and more timely receipt of adjuvant chemotherapy...
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Dec 18, 2019Increase was unique to ages 45 to 49
Recent colorectal cancer screening rates more than doubled among people ages 45 to 49 in the months after the release of updated American Cancer Society guidelines recommending screening in that...
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Dec 17, 2019Results show that higher breast cancer risk from excess body weight can be reversed with weight loss
A large new study finds that women who lost weight after age 50 and kept it off had a lower risk of breast cancer than women whose weight remained stable, helping answer a vexing question in...
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Dec 12, 2019Profile variations may point to causal factors
Incidence rates for hormone receptor positive (HR+) breast cancers are considerably higher in black men than white men, in stark contrast to lower incidence rates of those cancer subtypes in black...