Category: Cancer

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Anchor lead: What are the benefits of CT screening for smokers? Elizabeth Tracey reports Those who’ve smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 20 years or more should have low dose CT scans to screen them for lung cancer, …

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Anchor lead: A lot of people have put off routine cancer screening during the pandemic, and that may lead to more precise use of screening tools, Elizabeth Tracey reports PSA testing, screening colonoscopy, and other cancer screenings have often fallen …

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Anchor lead: If you’ve survived breast cancer, how long should you continue annual screening mammography? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve survived breast cancer and are now in your 70s or beyond, do you still need to have screening mammography? That …

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Anchor lead: There’s good news for people with one type of lung cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports If you have non-small cell lung cancer with a receptor called EGFR, you are likely to respond to an agent called osimertinib, a new …

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Anchor lead: How does a global study of cancer inform public health? Elizabeth Tracey reports Cancer diagnoses are up worldwide, by about a third, the Global Burden of Disease study finds. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at …

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Anchor lead: What does a new global analysis of cancer cases tell us? Elizabeth Tracey reports The latest Global Burden of Disease study tabulates different types of cancer experienced by people worldwide, and shows a rather dramatic increase in cancer …

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