Each month, the Geographic Health Equity Alliance (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: August 25, 2020)
Place-Based Cancer Control News and Research
- A study on prostate cancer patients from 2004-2006 finds that men who were living in rural areas were less likely to receive definitive treatment for their early‐stage prostate cancer than those living in urban areas.
- A study on cancer patients’ use of health information technology tools finds that there was no difference in general electronic personal health information management between rural and urban patients.
- However, electronic communication with providers is significantly lower among rural cancer patients than urban cancer patients.
General Cancer Control News and Research
- Researchers find that cancer-related patient encounters have decreased significantly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- The FDA has authorized a clinical trial to assess the safety of a novel immunotherapy combination for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 infection among cancer patients.
- Harold Burstein of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute provides the highlights in early-stage breast cancer research from the ASCO 2020 Virtual Meeting.
- Chemists have discovered a way to efficiently create a synthetic version of a valuable natural compound which has shown promise as an anti-cancer agent.
- A new study shows the strategies tumor cells use to evade attacks from the body’s immune system.
- Researchers find low-level of awareness among U.S. women about a form of cancer that develops near breast implants.
- A new study provides a comprehensive overview of gastric cancer incidence rates among American Indian and Alaska Native populations.
- Researchers find that knowing BRCA1/2 mutation carrier status before a breast cancer diagnosis is associated with better survival