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Dec 18, 2019Increase was unique to ages 45 to 49Recent 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...
Dec 17, 2019Results show that higher breast cancer risk from excess body weight can be reversed with weight lossA 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...
Dec 12, 2019Profile variations may point to causal factorsIncidence 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...
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Dec 9, 2019The Board Elects Five New Officers for 2020
The American Cancer Society (ACS) announces three new members and the newly-elected leadership officers to the Board of Directors, with all terms beginning on January 1, 2020. "We are honored to...
Dec 5, 2019Socioeconomic and healthcare delivery factors appear to contribute to the gapA new study finds more than two-fold differences between counties with the lowest and highest rates of surgery for patients with early stage lung cancer, with socioeconomic and healthcare delivery...