Each month, GHEA aggregates the latest news and research related to place-based cancer control and geographic health disparities. Below you will find the latest posts, updated regularly throughout the month.
(Last updated: April 15, 2022)
General Cancer Control News and Research
- April is National Cancer Control Month. Visit CDC’s featured article on success stories from comprehensive cancer control programs across the nation.
- A research study evaluating the validity of using electronic health records (EHRs) to generate indicators for surveillance of cancer prevention and control found that common data model EHR data can provide rich information for certain indicators but may have substantial biases for others that limit their use in informing surveillance efforts for cancer prevention and control programs.
- A study finds that globally, diagnoses and deaths from colorectal cancer more than doubled over the past 30 years.
- The FDA issued a new guidance to industry for developing plans to enroll more participants from underrepresented racial and ethnic populations in the U.S. into clinical trials.
- New clinical research shows that an HIV therapy drug stopped metastatic colorectal cancer disease progression in 25% of patients.
- Researchers find molecular differences between breast cells of Black and white women, which may explain higher breast cancer mortality rates among Black women.
- A study finds that pediatric cancer patients from lower- and middle-income countries faced a higher risk of all-cause mortality than those in high-income countries during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- A study finds that metastatic breast cancer patients had improved survival rates and decreased mortality rates when they had access to health care through Medicaid expansion.