Preventive Care
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Healthy lifestyle mitigates effect of childhood cancer
Independent of prior treatment exposures and sociodemographic factors, a healthy lifestyle and absence of hypertension or diabetes were each...
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Refined incidence rate of HCC with alcohol-associated cirrhosis encourages surveillance
Cumulative risk of HCC in patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis was 3% after 5 years, and 9% after 10 years.
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CRC blood tests: A future without screening colonoscopies?
Screening colonoscopies ultimately could be largely phased out in the years ahead in favor of highly sensitive noninvasive tests, if the blood...
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Ultraprocessed foods and cancer: Small changes may lower risk
This study “is the largest study investigating these associations between food processing and cancer risk and therefore has greater power to...
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Cervical screening often stops at 65, but should it?
A new study is intended to provide a more solid foundation for the benefits and harms of cervical screening for women older than 65.
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Cancer risk elevated after stroke in younger people
“Cancer represents a small percentage of causes of stroke. That means you would have to screen a lot of people with a benefit that is still...
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Plant-based diets not always healthy; quality is key
“For health benefits the plant-based sources need to be whole grains, fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, etc., rather than processed plant-...
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CT results in myositis inform cancer screening strategies
Patients with the autoantibody anti–TIF1-gamma had the highest diagnostic yield, while patients under 40 years old had a high frequency of false...
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Dabigatran recalled over potential carcinogen
The nationwide recall is because of the detection of the nitrosamine impurity, N-nitroso-dabigatran.
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Hydroxyurea underused in youth with sickle cell anemia
An expert says providers must tell families that their children need to take it every day, no matter the severity of disease.
Commentary
COVID can mimic prostate cancer symptoms
“I had none of those previously reported experiences that could suddenly trigger a spike in PSA.”