Poor and Minority Patients are More Likely to Have Cancer Detected via Emergency Room Visit
SAN FRANCISCO – Medicare patients from lower socioeconomic groups and several ethnic minority groups were more likely than their...
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Culturally Tailored Intervention Enabled Low-income Asian American Women to Conduct HPV Self-sampling Test
SAN FRANCISCO – A culturally tailored intervention to improve human papillomavirus (HPV) screening among low-income Asian American women significantly...
Colorectal Cancer Mortality and Racial Disparity Varies Across U.S. Cities
SAN FRANCISCO – Racial disparities in death rates from colorectal cancer vary considerably across cities in the United States,...
Immune Cell Therapy Shows Early Promise for Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
SAN FRANCISCO – A nonengineered, multiantigen-specific T-cell therapy was safe, tolerable, and showed signs of clinical activity in patients...
AACR Conference Features Latest Research on Impact of Environmental Carcinogens and Potential Pathways to Cancer Prevention
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – The American Association for Cancer Research will host a conference titled Environmental Carcinogenesis: Potential Pathway...
Adults at High Risk for HIV Infection Have Low Rates of Vaccination Against Human Papillomavirus
“ATLANTA – Adults who are at high risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes...
Maintenance Therapy With Rucaparib Shows Clinical Responses in a Subgroup of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
“ATLANTA – Maintenance treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib (Rubraca) was well tolerated and provided clinical responses among patients...
A Genetic Variant Linked to Increased Risk of Stroke in Childhood Cancer Survivors Treated With Cranial Radiation Therapy
ATLANTA – A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors...
Surgery is Associated With Increased Survival for Patients With HER2+ Stage 4 Breast Cancer
Patients without insurance were less likely to receive surgery, increasing disparity in outcomes ATLANTA – Surgery was associated with...
Combination of Virotherapy and Radiotherapy Safe, Shows Early Promise in Vulnerable Patients With Esophageal Cancer
ATLANTA – The experimental oncolytic adenovirus telomelysin (OBP-301) in combination with radiotherapy was safe and showed early clinical efficacy...