Immersive virtual reality beneficial for pain relief in cancer
Apr 08, 2024
Virtual reality provides more nonpharmacologic pain relief than an active control, and the benefit was sustained.
Neurological conditions ranked as leading cause of disability-adjusted life years globally
Mar 15, 2024
Between 1990 and 2021, there was an 18.2 percent increase in the global DALY counts attributed to those conditions
Substance use disorders on the rise for survivors of specific cancers
Jan 13, 2024
Prevalence of SUD highest in survivors of head and neck, esophageal and gastric, cervical cancers, and melanoma
Low prostate cancer-specific mortality seen for men with localized disease
Mar 13, 2023
Prostate cancer-specific mortality was low for men randomly assigned to active monitoring, prostatectomy or radiotherapy.
Overdiagnosis common with continued breast cancer screening in seniors
Aug 09, 2023
An estimated 31% of breast cancers were overdiagnosed among screened women aged 70 to 74 years.
Genital talc use positively linked to ovarian cancer
May 21, 2024
Frequent douching and douching during young adulthood also was positively associated with ovarian cancer.
U.S. spends more on cancer than other countries, but without mortality benefit
Jun 01, 2022
The United States had the highest per capita spending on cancer care in 2020 but a median cancer mortality rate.
Many older women not eligible to quit cervical cancer screening
Jun 15, 2021
Findings were consistent among women with employer-based insurance and those treated at a safety net health center.
Sitting, inactivity increase death risk among cancer survivors
Jan 13, 2022
The risk for both all-cause and cancer-specific death increased for cancer survivors with a combination of prolonged sitting and inactivity.
Oropharyngeal cancer incidence, mortality up among U.S. men
Dec 23, 2021
Among men, the incidence of OPC increased nationally 2.7% per year, particularly among men ages 65 years and older and non-Hispanic white men (more than 3% per year).