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: December 14, 2021)
General Cancer Control News and Research
- The CDC published “Cancer, the Flu, and You,” a featured article with facts and resources for cancer patients. The page highlights that current or past cancer patients are at a higher risk for complications from the flu.
- A study finds that prostate cancer screening results differ in men taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs compared with non-users.
- A study examines changes in next-generation sequencing among cancer patients following implementation of the Medicare national coverage determination (NCD).
- This economic evaluation examines the out-of-pocket costs for colonoscopies among U.S. adults with commercial or Medicare insurance.
- The American Cancer Society recently updated their Common Questions About the COVID-19 Outbreak page.
- New research suggests that driving up the immune response at a cancer tumor’s site with nanotechnology may help enhance immunotherapy treatments in advanced stages of the disease.
- Researchers using the Cancer Genome Atlas Breast Cancer Data set developed a classification method that divides breast cancers into 12 distinct biological groups. This could aid future research efforts and enable faster translation of molecular findings into the pathology lab for clinical use.
