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: May 22, 2020)
Place-Based Cancer Control News & Research
- Rural residents are particularly vulnerable to the effects of COVID-19: rural residents are older and more likely to smoke, are at a higher risk of death from heart and respiratory diseases and may experience the added burden of fewer hospital beds compered to non-rural residents.
General Cancer Control News and Research
- A study on pediatric cancer patients in New York finds that children with cancer are not at a higher risk for COVID-19.
- Researchers find that, when compared to women who did not get mammograms, women who received mammograms had lower rates for advanced stage and fatal breast cancers.
- Climate change threatens prospects for further progress in cancer prevention and control; climate change creates conditions favorable to greater production of and exposure to known carcinogens.
- Researchers have discovered a way to transform autoimmunity drugs into powerful anti-cancer treatments through a molecular “switch.”
- Researchers have developed a new imaging method for detecting cervical precancer cells, a step towards non-invasive, bedside diagnostics.
- The American Society of Clinical Oncology has launched its own COVID-19 registry and has requested oncology practices across the country to share information about patients with COVID-19 for educational purposes.
- The Prevent Cancer Foundation has published a blog on what cancer patients, survivors or caregivers need to know about COVID-19.
- Researchers have developed a new way to detect breast cancer more accurately in patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery.
- An international research team has discovered a drug that can overcome chemotherapy resistance in ovarian cancer.
