Cancer

MD Newsline recently interviewed Dr. Michael Mcgee,  Chairman for the Emergency Medicine Departments at Methodist Hospitals in Gary and Merrillville, Indiana and President and Chief Executive Officer (CE) of Premier Urgent Care and Occupational Health Center in Chicago, IL. Dr. McGee discussed clinical trial recruitment in the wake of COVID19 and the importance of recruiting...

By Robin Baumeister Race accounts for higher mortality rates for all cancer sites, studies find. While this should come as no surprise, its gravity is no less present; regardless of gender, black cancer patients face higher mortality than their white peers.   Among black men, cancer incidence is also higher; black men have 25% higher incidence...

New research reveals what may be fueling racial disparities in U.S. prostate cancer deaths — disparities that have black patients dying at higher rates than whites. What are they? Education, income and insurance. “Socioeconomic status and insurance status are all changeable factors. Unfortunately, the socioeconomic status inequality in the United States has continued to increase...

After adjustment for clinical and nonclinical factors, the Black-White disparity in prostate cancer survival is narrowed, according to a study published online Sept. 8 in Cancer. Wanqing Wen, M.D., M.P.H., from Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, and colleagues examined the impact of clinical characteristics and factors related to access to care on survival by...

FRIDAY, Nov. 6, 2020 — A ‘watchful waiting’ approach to care may be safe for Black Americans with low-risk prostate cancer, a new study suggests. Black patients are less likely than whites to be offered watchful waiting, also called active surveillance. This may be because compared to whites, Black men are more likely to have...

Prostate Cancer Impacts Black Patients Disproportionately Written by Gerardo Sison While the overall incidence and mortality rates of prostate cancer have steadily decreased over the past decade, the health disparities between men by ethnicity have remained unchanged. In fact, the disparities between black men and white men in the US have actually increased. The incidence...

How much does where your patients live affect their cancer risk? Apparently a lot. While the mechanisms are complex, studies show geography affects a number of factors that can lead to higher incidence and worse outcomes of various cancer types.  Rural living is one of the many contexts in which geography affects risk. While rural...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas. The United States Census definition of “rural” changes slightly from year to year, but, in general, rural areas are those that are sparsely populated and located far from urban centers.1 Demographic research indicates that rural-urban disparities in health care have widened in recent years, particularly among...

According to the American Cancer Society, approximately 1 in 9 men will develop prostate cancer at some point during their lifetime. Nearly 100% of men who are diagnosed with early-stage, localized prostate cancer will survive the disease, but this figure drops dramatically to only a 32% five-year survival among men who are diagnosed with advanced-stage...