Tag: Cancer screening

Intermountain Healthcare using new AI to help detect colon cancer

Editor's Note Intermountain Healthcare in Utah is the first health system in the state to use a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool distributed by Medtronic that helps doctors detect colorectal polyps in real time during a colonoscopy, a GlobeNewswire press release reports on November 11. The new AI technology is…

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By: Tarsilla Moura
November 11, 2022
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ACS comments on colonoscopy study

Editor's Note The American College of Surgeons (ACS) on October 11 issued comments on a European study examining colonoscopies that was published October 9 in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study, which looked at colonoscopies in Sweden, Poland, Norway, and the Netherlands, seemed to question the effectiveness of…

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By: Judy Mathias
October 12, 2022
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Cancer death rates drop as treatments and screening improves

Editor's Note Strides have been made in cancer treatments, diagnostic tools and prevention strategies, driving down cancer death rates, according to a report published Wednesday, September 21, by the American Association for Cancer Research, NBC News September 21 reports. According to the group’s annual Cancer Progress Report, over the past…

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By: Lauren McCaffrey
September 22, 2022
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Study shows ‘dramatic’ increase in early onset cancers

Editor's Note In this study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, titled “Is early- onset cancer an emerging global epidemic? Current evidence and future implications” and published by Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, the incidence of early onset cancers (cancer diagnosed before age 50), including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney,…

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By: Tarsilla Moura
September 9, 2022
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Cancer treatment delays in COVID-19 patients

Cancer treatment delays in COVID-19 patients This large prospective cohort study from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, found that multiple patient factors, underlying primary malignant neoplasm, multimorbidity, geographic location, receipt of vaccine, and COVID-19 severity and diagnosis date were linked to delays in cancer treatment during…

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By: Judy Mathias
July 28, 2022
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Plasma RNA being used to monitor cancer treatment

Editor's Note  According to a May 2022 study from UCLA Health, liquid biopsies for certain cancers are becoming more popular because they are less invasive, Healthcare Purchasing News July 18 reports. This method can be used to monitor cancer treatment and accurately evaluate effectiveness. In this study, UCLA researchers studied…

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By: Lauren McCaffrey
July 19, 2022
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Racial, ethnic disparities in cancer care during COVID-19

Editor's Note This national survey study led by researchers from Stanford University finds that the COVID-19 pandemic was linked to disparities in the receipt of timely cancer care in Black and Latinx adults. Of 1,240 adult cancer patients surveyed, Black and Latinx respondents had greater odds of : involuntary treatment…

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By: Judy Mathias
July 18, 2022
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Cancer screening decreased worldwide during COVID-19

Editor's Note This systematic review and meta-analysis from Stony Brook Cancer Center, Stony Brook University, New York City, and the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, finds that COVID-19 pandemic measures were associated with widely reduced cancer screening services. Between January and October 2020, there was an overall decrease of: -46.7%…

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By: Judy Mathias
July 11, 2022
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