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: October 25, 2022)
General Cancer Control News and Research
- Researchers have found a possible way to overcome barriers that block effective anti-cancer immune responses, potentially providing a strategy for more effective immunotherapies.
- A study finds that modifying the eligibility criteria for low-dose computed tomography can increase the number of women and Black persons who can benefit from the screening.
- Researchers examining factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among cancer patients found that most patients with cancer have or would receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Those who are less likely to accept the vaccine have more concerns regarding effectiveness and side effects, are younger, more socioeconomically disadvantaged and have lower perceptions of COVID-19 severity.
- The latest edition of the American Cancer Society’s Breast Cancer Statistics reveals that while breast cancer death rates have dropped by 43% from 1989-2020, Black women continue to be 40% or more likely to die from the disease despite lower incidence.
- Researchers test a cancer-detection system that appears to have overcome of the challenges of the “liquid biopsy” in a new, cost-effective way.
- The American Cancer Society recently updated their Questions About COVID-19 and Cancer.
- A study finds that patients with inflammatory breast cancer could be at higher risk of brain metastases.
- A study examines the relationship between race and access to digital mammographic technology in women with Medicare insurance.
- A study finds that remote interventions led to higher screening rates for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers among women who live in rural areas.
