#cancer risk

Models based on personal risk may be more useful than those based on age and smoking history alone.

Predictive models found that expanding mammography could avert more deaths, especially among Black women.

GLP-1 analog medications improved the functionality of cancer-fighting natural killer cells.

Accelerated progress is needed to achieve Cancer Moonshot goal of cutting the age-adjusted cancer death rate by at least 50% over 25 years.

More than a third of people with predisposition genes for breast, ovarian or colon cancer would not have qualified for genetic screening.

Mostly Black communities live among the chemical plants of the Louisiana parish, where cancer risk is seven times the national average.

People who consumed highly processed food had a greater risk for ovarian and brain cancers and higher cancer mortality.

A Q&A with University of California, San Francisco’s Karla Kerlikowske, MD, about cancer, obesity, breast density, inflammation and more

All alcoholic drinks—even wine—are carcinogenic.

People who regularly used vitamin D supplements were about half as likely to develop melanoma.

Awareness varied between wine, beer, and liquor

However, lung cancer incidence among HIV-positive people has fallen over the past two decades.

Regular physical was associated with a lower risk of breast cancer while more sedentary time had the opposite effect.

The clinical significance of many of the inherited mutations that can now be identified remains unclear.

The levels of prostate-specific antigen in the blood can indicate further testing is needed to screen for cancer.