By: Jeff Minerd From: medpagetoday.com Low health literacy and language barriers have been shown to negatively affect cancer screening and prevention behaviors, but less is known about how they affect a patient’s experience during cancer treatment. In new research, Christine Gunn, PhD, of Boston University School of Medicine, and colleagues hypothesized that poor health literacy and not speaking English would …
Thrive’s blood test for cancer screening doubles detection rate from standard testing in new study
By: Alaric DeArment From: medcitynews.com Results from the study, performed on more than 10,000 women by Johns Hopkins and Geisinger Health, were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research’s 2020 meeting, which is virtual this year due to Covid-19. A test designed for early detection of cancers from a blood sample was able to more than double the number …
Purdue researchers develop 3D technology to detect deadly cancers
Posted By: Jenna Liston From: wlfi.com Early detection screenings can help recognize certain cancers, but the new Disease on-a-chip method researchers have created could lead to a more accurate reading. Researchers at Purdue are developing a new way to spot cancer with 3D technology. Early detection screenings can help recognize certain cancers, but the new Disease on-a-chip method researchers have …
Cancer Screening Costs $88.7B Annually; New Tool Reduces Invasiveness and Price
One thing common to all types of cancer is that it’s a tremendously expensive disease not only to treat, but to test for, as well. The money spent screening for and treating cancer in the United States is estimated to be $88.7 billion every year.(1) Doctors in the U.S. screen patients for cancer more than in any other country that …
Prevent Cancer Foundation Releases New Tool Showing Inconsistent Insurance Policies for Cancer Screening
Cancer screening is one of the country’s greatest public health achievements, yet insurance coverage of screening for five different types of cancer varies by health care plan, according to a new review by the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Along with the review, the Foundation released a new digital tool that allows anyone to easily compare their plan’s coverage of screening tests …
Are We Ready for a Blood Test for Cancer?
By Nicholas Weiler From: ucsf.edu What if screening for cancer was as easy as checking your cholesterol? That’s the promise of techniques currently in development that may one day make it possible to detect the earliest stages of cancer with an annual blood draw. So-called “liquid biopsies” involve extracting free-floating cancer cells or cancer DNA from the bloodstream (or in …
Wider breast cancer screening won’t be a boon to women
From: newscientist.com CANCER screening sounds like the ultimate in preventive medicine. Spot a tumour early and it is easier to treat and cure. That’s the theory, anyway. But it ignores the potential problem of overdiagnosis – finding tiny tumours that would never have caused any harm, yet get treated aggressively. The big question for any programme is whether the harms …