USPSTF finalizes breast cancer screening recommendations
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)’s newly published final recommendations support breast cancer screening beginning in women at age 40, but they don’t go as far as many screening advocates had hoped.
In addition to recommending biennial breast cancer screening for women ages 40 to 74, the task force stuck with its draft recommendations from 2023, reporting that it found insufficient evidence for screening women 75 and older. What’s more, the USPSTF concluded that there was insufficient evidence to recommend supplemental screening with MRI or ultrasound in women, regardless of breast density.In announ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 30, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news
I found a lump in my breast - doctors gave me two weeks to live: Dying mother, 50, is left in agony in her final days after heartbreaking cancer diagnosis
Jeanette Carter, from Tamworth, Staffordshire was given a shock breast cancer diagnosis in January after she discovered a lump in her breast. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Treat 15-Plus Brain Metastases? Stereotactic Radiosurgery to Treat 15-Plus Brain Metastases?
A large study supports the use of stereotactic radiosurgery in patients with 15 or more brain metastases, finding improved cognitive outcomes and comparable survival to whole brain radiation.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 30, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
EPA bans consumer use of methylene chloride, a toxic chemical used as a paint stripper but known to cause liver cancer
(Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Scientists find cancer-like features in atherosclerosis, spurring opportunity for new treatment approaches
NIH-supported findings could open up a new field of cardiovascular disease research using cancer therapies to combat the buildup of disease-causing plaque. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - April 30, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Scientists invent new way to detect skin cancer
Researchers hope using Terahertz (THz) waves will help preserve as much healthy skin as possible. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Clinical Utility of Cxbladder to Headline at the 2024 AUA Annual Meeting
A ground-breaking study demonstrating the clinical utility of Cxbladder is to be the centrepiece of cancer diagnostics company Pacific Edge's (NZX, ASX: PEB) activities at the 2024 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting to be held May 3 – 6 in San Antonio, Texas. HERSHEY, Pa.... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: TRI FVT Source Type: news
Diagnostics firm moves HQ from Boston to North Carolina seeking lower costs
A Swedish company focused on pancreatic cancer is setting up operations in Research Triangle Park after significantly reducing its workforce. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Zac Ezzone Source Type: news
King Charles and Princess Kate's very different reactions to cancer news
The royal family's current health battles have "forced them to really think about what matters," with King Charles III and Princess Kate channeling their focuses in two very different directions, Newsweek's chief royal correspondent, Jack Royston, told a British news show on Tuesday. In February,…#kingcharlesiii #jackroyston #buckinghampalace #queencamilla #kensingtonpalace #skynews #wilfredfrost #royston #princewilliam #peterphilips (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
King Charles shares health update on return to work
King Charles III was asked about his cancer treatment as he returned to public-facing duties for the first time and replied: "I'm all right, thank you." The monarch, 75, visited The University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre and was named a new patron of major charity Cancer Research UK.…#charlesiii #cancerresearch #buckinghampalace (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Rising Late-Stage CRC Rates Support Screening From Age 45 Rising Late-Stage CRC Rates Support Screening From Age 45
The incidence of distant- and regional-stage colorectal cancer (CRC) has been increasing in individuals aged 46-49 years, a cross-sectional study of stage-stratified CRC found.MDedge News (Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines)
Source: Medscape Hematology-Oncology Headlines - April 30, 2024 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Gastroenterology News Source Type: news
Is Ozempic the New Anti-Inflammatory Wonder Drug?
Nearly a decade ago, a thin, soft-spoken twenty-something woman named Megan walked into my office and presented me with a meticulous hand-written file containing her gastrointestinal history. The file included descriptions of her initial diagnosis of Crohn’s disease as a teenager, the multiple operations she had endured to remove diseased parts of her bowels, and the array of symptoms she suffered with, including nausea, a dozen bowel movements a day, and a total reliance on nutrition obtained through her veins, known as total parenteral nutrition (TPN). Instead of twenty feet of small intestines that most people hav...
Source: TIME: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shilpa Ravella Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
America ’s Age Old Mental Health Crisis
In 1956, my uncle John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. senator, wrote a book that is probably more famous for its great title than its contents. It was called Profiles in Courage. And it was about eight U.S. senators who JFK felt had made particularly courageous contributions to American history.
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For a while now, I have been thinking about what courage means to me. While growing up with my father, Ted Kennedy, in the Senate, and then serving in the House of Representatives myself for many years, I saw quite a bit of bravery in politics. But the truth is, the most courageous people I...
Source: TIME: Health - April 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
DBT + CEM boosts cancer detection in women with history of the disease
The combination of contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) increases early breast cancer detection each year in women with a personal history of the disease – although it also increases the recall rate, researchers have found.
"Adding contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM) to digital breast tomosynthesis substantially improved the detection of early breast cancer in women with a personal history of breast cancer, and this benefit appears to persist each year," wrote a team led by Wendie Berg, MD, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania in an article published April 30 in Radi...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 30, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: Breast Breast Imaging Source Type: news
Kaposi sarcoma discovery could facilitate drug development
Researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, after decades of research efforts, have developed a mouse model of Kaposi sarcoma that could be key to the development of new drugs to treat the disease. Kaposi sarcoma is a cancer that is the most common cancer in people living with HIV.
The findings appeared in Cell Host & Microbe. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - April 30, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
