MedPage Today (7/27, Bassett) reported, “Frequent aspirin use was associated with a decreased risk of ovarian cancer, even in the presence of risk factors, according to a…meta-analysis.” In total, “frequent aspirin use was associated with a 13% reduction in ovarian cancer risk…across 17 studies, with no difference between cohort and case-control study results…reported” researchers. Also, “risk […]
Reuters Health (3/3, Rapaport) reports, “Patients with cancer shouldn’t delay COVID-19 vaccination despite the potential for clinically evident adenopathy on imaging done after vaccination, according to recommendations from a multidisciplinary panel of scientific experts.” According to recommendations published in Radiology, “vaccination-associated adenopathy or axillary swelling may appear within two to four days after either vaccine dose and last up […]
Leading the News Cellular Recycling Genes Associated With Ovarian Tumor Formation Ovarian Cancer News Today (3/23, Bryson) reports that research in mice indicates that “disrupting genes essential for the cellular recycling process known as autophagy increases the frequency of mutations during cell division and promotes the formation of ovarian cancer tumors.” The research was published in PLOS Genetics […]
HealthDay (3/10, Gordon) reports, “A significant number of older women with breast cancer may have genetic mutations that put them at risk of additional cancers, particularly ovarian cancer, a new study finds.” In the study, published March 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, “the researchers said that as many as one in 40 postmenopausal women […]
HealthDay Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (2/5) reports in research Share to FacebookShare to Twitter published in Nature, researchers describe findings from an analysis of “2,658 whole genomes of cancer samples across 38 types of tumors,” including “all the ways DNA and RNA influence our personal biology.” As a result of the work, 19 “out […]
The WHO Predicts 60 Percent More Cancer Cases Worldwide Over Next 20 Years Driven By High HPV RatesThe Daily Mail (UK) Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (2/3, Rahhal) reports, “Driven by persistently high rates of HPV, hepatitis and smoking – especially in low-income countries – the world could see 60 percent more cancer cases in […]
Bloomberg Law Share to FacebookShare to Twitter (1/27, Pugh, Subscription Publication) reported CMS agreed to extend Medicare coverage of comprehensive genetic tests to “patients with inherited ovarian and breast cancer.” Medicare will now “cover laboratory tests using next-generation sequencing” for these patients. The move “is expected to reduce deaths and improve health outcomes for cancer […]