In the past 25 years, cancer survival rates in Australia have improved by 18%, and newly-diagnosed individuals on average now have a 70% chance of surviving cancer at least five years beyond their diagnosis. This success is largely due to improvements in public health initiatives, detection met...
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after all, these diseases largely impact older people. but a surprising new study from the american cancer society found that, while the vast majority of colorectal cancer cases are in older people, they’re sharply increasing among twenty- and thirtysomethings, too. nearly 90 percent of all ...
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The role of precision medicine in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been continuously increasing in the latest years. The path to achieve complete molecular information is certainly long and challenging, as it is affected by the evolving and ever-changing nature of the neoplastic ph...
Rates of colorectal cancer diagnosis in young adults increased over time regardless of income level. The highest proportion of young adult diagnoses occurred in the top income category. The proportion of colorectal cancers diagnosed in younger individuals rose in urban areas, but not in rural areas....
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Questionnaires have reported higher rates of reflux symptoms in tobacco smokers compared with nonsmokers.6-9 Multivariate analysis from a case-control study10 showed that duration of smoking was associated with increasing reflux symptoms, with an odds ratio (OR) for reflux of 1.7 (95% confidence ...
An increasing number of lung cancer diagnoses are among people who never smoked. "Over the past 15 years, more women, never-smokers and younger people are being diagnosed with lung cancer," she wrote. While lung cancer rates have significantly decreased for men, they have substantially risen fo...
Radiation therapy trials have also improved practice by increasing quality assurance and consistency in treatment protocols across multiple centres. This review summarises some of the key RT practice-changing clinical trials over the last two decades, in four common cancer sites for which RT is a ...