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: September 25, 2020)
Place-Based Cancer Control News and Research
- A study examining the geographic variation in knowledge of palliative care (PC) found that the variation in PC knowledge on census division (e.g. neighborhood) and state level in 2018 was consistent with the real-world geographic disparities in the availability of PC programs.
General Cancer Control News and Research
- The National Cancer Institute released an article explaining the American Cancer Society’s new cervical cancer screening guidelines. Among the changes, the new guidelines include a later screening age and a new recommendation for the HPV test.
- A study on breast cancer patients whose disease has spread to the brain found patients fare better if their metastases are picked up before they begin to cause symptoms.
- A new study finds that a combined use of aspirin, statins and metformin is associated with decreased lung cancer incidence and mortality.
- The American Cancer Society releases a press release on colon cancer and its disproportionate impact on the African American community.
- A new type of breast cancer drug developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can help halt progression of disease and is not toxic, according to phase one clinical trials.
- New research on molecular-level mechanisms of prostate cancer cells provides insights on how prostate cancer causes secondary tumors.
- Researchers find that the rapid decrease in mortality rates from non-small-cell lung cancer between 2013-2016 is likely due to the reduction in incidence along with treatment advances.
