While breast cancer incidence rates are still on the rise, mortality rates keep decreasing, although at slower pace than in past. This is one of the take-home messages from Breast Cancer Statistics 2019-2020, the biennial [more]
As many as Baltimore’s residents. This is the answer to the question: “How many breast cancer patients have been saved from death in the past 30 years thanks to mammography screening and improved treatment?”. Baltimore [more]
“Tobacco control efforts implemented since the 1960s will continue to reduce lung cancer rates well into the next half-century. Additional prevention and cessation efforts will be required to sustain and expand these gains to further [more]
Cancer patients who use complementary medicine tend to refuse effective treatments more often than non users, and this reflects on increased mortality: this is the conclusion of an observational study just published on Jama Oncology, that [more]
Cancer control measures that have contributed to increase life expectancy in rich populations have yet to be seen in poorer populations, according to a study just published on The BMJ by a group led by [more]
In women hit by breast cancer, the size and type of social relationships influence the rates of recurrence and mortality, according to a research published on Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. [more]
Mortality data show that a precipitous rise in deaths from cutaneous melanoma in countries of northern Europe, Australia and north America, which started in the 1950s, may now be stabilising. Yet a paper published last [more]