Preventive Care
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Building an AI Army of Digital Twins to Fight Cancer
What if there were a way to test — quickly and accurately — all the potential paths forward?
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Smokeless Tobacco, Areca Nut Chewing Behind 1 in 3 Oral Cancers: IARC Report
‘Our estimates highlight the burden these products pose on health care and the importance of prevention strategies to reduce consumption of...
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Many Patients With Cancer Visit EDs Before Diagnosis
Factors associated with an increased likelihood of an ED visit ahead of diagnosis included having certain cancers, living in rural areas, and...
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Plasma Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids Inversely Associated With Cancer
The findings support possible small net protective roles of omega-3 and omega-6 PUFAs in the development of new cancer incidence, the researchers...
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Prostate Cancer Treatment Associated With More Complications
Researchers conducted a cohort study to try to characterize long-term treatment-related adverse effects and complications in patients treated for...
Commentary
On Second Thought: Aspirin for Primary Prevention — What We Really Know
Recommendations vis-à-vis aspirin have evolved at a dizzying pace.
Conference Coverage
ATA: Updates on Risk, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Thyroid Cancer
Researchers compared medical records of adults with type 2 diabetes and moderate cardiovascular risk who were new users of GLP-1 receptor agonists...
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Thyroid Cancer Overdiagnosis Continues Despite Cautions
More than 1.7 million people might have been overdiagnosed between 2013 and 2017 in 63 countries, estimated the authors of a new paper.
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FIT Completion and Yield Similar in Younger and Older Adults
About two thirds of adults who had a positive FIT result went on to have a colonoscopy within 3 months of receiving the test result.
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Value of AI-Aided Colonoscopy on Advanced Neoplasia Detection Unclear
CADe-enhanced colonoscopy outperformed conventional colonoscopy in the average number of polyps detected per colonoscopy and polyp detection rate...
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Can Better Diet Improve Survival in Black Women With Ovarian Cancer?
Researchers conducted a prospective cohort study among 483 self-identified Black women newly diagnosed with histologically confirmed eithelial...