Age-adjusted cancer mortality rates decreased from 2000 to 2020
Jan 18, 2024
Racial and ethnic disparities, however, persisted for various cancers, including prostate, male lung and bronchus, and female colorectal cancer.
FDA approves AI device that helps spot skin cancer
Jan 18, 2024
Along with helping to spot melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, the device can also assess moles for basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma.
Inflammation, poverty have synergistic effect on mortality
Jan 17, 2024
Individuals with elevated C-reactive protein at 1.0 mg/dL and poverty had a greater risk for 15-year all-cause mortality.
1975 to 2019 saw 58 percent decrease in breast cancer mortality
Jan 16, 2024
Of the reduction, 29% was due to treatment of metastatic breast cancer and 25% was due to mammography screening.
Acute hospital care at home shows promise for medically complex patients
Jan 08, 2024
At 30 days after discharge, the mortality rate was 3.2% and skilled nursing facility use rate was 2.6%.