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Byline: SOMMER BROKAW Medicaid expansion has likely improved care of colon cancer, researchers said in a study published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. The researchers [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY An artificial intelligence, or AI, tool improved radiologists' breast cancer detection rate by an average of 5%, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY African-American men on active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer are more likely than their White counterparts to experience disease progression and ultimately require treatment, a study [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Taking aspirin, statins and the drug metformin together reduces the risk for lung cancer by 17%, a study published Thursday by the Journal of Thoracic Oncology [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Artificial intelligence-assisted mammogram screening is more accurate at identifying women with breast cancer than assessment by a radiologist, a study published Thursday by JAMA Oncology found. [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Researchers have developed a rapid, affordable, accurate test for breast cancer, according to a paper published Wednesday by the journal Science Translational Medicine. A small study [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Sending colon cancer testing kits to Medicaid beneficiaries showed larger increases in screening rates than sending reminders alone, according to a study published Monday by the [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY A high-protein diet that relies heavily on plant-based sources can reduce a person's risk for death from heart disease by 10 percent, a study published Monday [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Medicaid expansion under the http://www.upi.com/topic/affordable-care-act/ has led to earlier detection of cancer among low-income Americans, a study published Monday by the journal Cancer found. New Medicaid [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Nearly 20 percent of survivors of smoking-related cancers continued to smoke even after recovery, according to a study published Thursday by JAMA Network Open. Smoking-related cancers [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Black people with cancer are more likely to have metastatic disease when they are diagnosed, a new analysis published Wednesday by JAMA Network Open has suggested. [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Private health insurers spend more than $2 billion a year to screen women in their 40s for breast cancer, though fewer than half those eligible undergo [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY They have been called 'forever chemicals' -- researchers say they earned the nickname for a reason -- and a new study suggests they increase risk for [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY DNA differences between men and women may explain why cancer risk is higher in males, a new study by researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Eating vegetables offers a lot of health benefits -- but it doesn't slow the progression of prostate cancer. The finding, reported in a study published Tuesday [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Black men are more likely than white men to develop hormone receptor positive, or HR+, breast cancer, even though the opposite is the case for women [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Using aspirin three times per week may reduce risk for death among those with certain types of cancer, a new study has found -- supporting the [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY A gene-targeting therapy already being used in breast and ovarian cancer may also be effective in prostate cancer, a new study has revealed. In research published [...]

Byline: BRIAN P. DUNLEAVY Omega-3 fatty acids offer a lot of health benefits -- but protecting against colorectal cancers may not be one of them, a new study suggests. In [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON An insulin delivery drug may also be able to fight a fatal type of brain cancer, a new study says. The compound molecule surfen was able to [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Childhood cancer survivors have 10 times the risk of having heart failure versus children without cancer, a new study says. Survivors also are three times more likely [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Taking aspirin may raise the risk of death in some women with breast cancer, a study says. Researchers suspect the drug may interact during methylation, a chemical [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Cancer survivors with high-deductible insurance plans are more likely to delay or forgo treatment altogether, a new study says. Those with high-deductible plans and no health savings [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Cancer rates and mortality among the oldest Americans are higher than younger groups, a new study says. As the fastest-growing age group in the United States, adults [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON A new blood test may help people diagnosed with breast cancer predict if they will relapse later in life, a new study says. Researchers developed a method [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON A strain of the common cold could help fight off bladder cancer, new research shows. New research showed the oncolytic virus coxsackievirus, or CVA21, wiped out all [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON After successfully combating cancer, many survivors then have to deal with lingering pain that comes with it, a new study shows. Roughly one in three cancer survivors [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Black women born in the United States have a higher rate of triple-negative breast cancer than black women who are U.S. citizens born in Eastern and Western [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Doctors have traditionally relied on ultrasounds to examine men for prostate cancer, but the method can't pinpoint specific tumors, a new study says. When researchers combined this [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Local pharmacies can help to increase physical activity and improve health conditions for prostate cancer patients, a new study says. After three months of performing moderate and [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Having a lot of fat in the belly and thighs may be associated with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, a new study says. Visceral fat that [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Heartburn, ulcer and acid reflux medicine may bring relief, but over time, they could also increase a person's risk of early death, new findings show. Researchers have [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Global cancer cases are expected to climb drastically over the next 20 years, leading to a high demand for chemotherapy, a new study says. By 2040, the [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Having inflammatory bowel disease as a child increases a person's likelihood for cancer later in life, new research shows. People had a 2.5 times higher risk of [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON A common prostate cancer drug has been linked to type 2 diabetes, a new study says. Men taking 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors had the risk of developing type 2 [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Cervical cancer was once one of the most common cancers in the United States, but testing has advanced testing methods have reduced danger associated with the disease. [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON A new system may be able to spot different types of cancer at earlier stages, a new study says. The imaging system uses near-infrared light, to pinpoint [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSON Researchers have developed a new method to speed up the process of finding the right drug to treat rare forms of cancer, a study says. The new [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONA new method may be on the way to help doctors identify lung cancer sooner, a study says.Researchers used a CT scan and blood test to detect how [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONSome doctors aren't prepared to give cancer patients basic information on how to treat the disease, new research shows.Roughly 17 percent of doctors didn't have information on surgery, [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONScreenings and improved treatment have saved thousands of lives from breast cancer over the last three decades, a study says.In 2018, mammography examinations and breast cancer treatment reduced [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONA new 'trojan horse' approach to treating cancer has shown promise in its first clinical trial run, a new study says.Nearly 15 percent of patients with ovarian and [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONA combination of popular diabetes and immunotherapy drugs can kill breast cancer, a new study says.A mix of the diabetes drug metformin and leukemia drug venetoclax were both [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONSitting and watching TV for an extended time can increase the colorectal cancer risk for younger adults, a new study says.Women under age 50 who sat and watched [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONRates for six of 12 cancers associated with obesity are growing among younger adult Americans, a new study says.Colorectal, endometrial, gallbladder, kidney, multiple myeloma and pancreatic cancers, all [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONA new immune-boosting spray could stop recurrence of cancer in patients, a study says.The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, detailed how researchers sprayed the surgical [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONWomen with HPV may be at higher risk for cervical cancer, but appear not to show cellular abnormalities, report researchers in Sweden.Those findings appeared Monday in the peer-reviewed [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONResearchers from the University of California, San Diego say they have developed a method to detect and measure cancer as it spreads throughout the body.Metastasis happens when invasive [...]

Byline: TAUREN DYSONResearchers in Sweden have pinpointed two types of connective tissue cells associated with the worse breast cancer prognosis', a study says.The study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature [...]