... breast health education may be the key to lowering breast cancer mortality rates in Washington, D.C., ... 39 percent and their ability to answer breast cancer questions correctly increase by 69 percent. ...
... ," write Yabroff and colleagues. Moreover, Bradley and colleagues note that the cost of cancer mortality is high when compared with other diseases, such as diabetes or influenza.
"Decision makers can ...
... each of these three factors responsible for the disparity in cancer mortality? A new UCLA study, published ... white and 291,000 African American cancer patients from 12 geographic regions in the United ...
... younger Americans can be concealed.
As an alternative to age-adjustment, Kort examined cancer mortality rates stratified by age and found that for individuals born since 1925, every age group has ...
... and the availability of urologic care are at least partly responsible for the variation in prostate cancer mortality rates observed in this country. Researchers say that this study underscores an ...
... women nearly everywhere in Europe. With the exception of smoking-related cancers, mortality trends generally in most cancers were moving downwards for most of Europe.
Survival rates for most cancers ...
... individual SES components, such as education level, with cancer mortality.
In the current study, Ahmedin Jemal ... V.M., Ph.D., of the American Cancer Society and colleagues obtained individual education ...
Although colorectal cancer screening tests are proven to reduce colorectal cancer mortality, only about half of U.S. men and women 50 and older receive the recommended tests, according to a report in ...
... arm. The investigators were interested to know if the prostate cancer mortality difference would continue to increase ... surgery group died due to prostate cancer compared with 17.9 percent of the men ...
... 40 and 59 could substantially reduce breast cancer mortality in India, according to a study in the September 9 ... Sue Moss, Ph.D., of the Institute of Cancer Research in Surrey, UK, cautions that although ...
... work to be done, especially in decreasing cancer mortality. Ideally, cancer will become just another ... gap between African Americans and whites for colorectal cancer death rates remained as large as ever ...
... Roughly 430 patients die of lung cancer every day in the United States, according to Bazhenova, ... despite being the second most common cancer. "While breast cancer mortality has declined about 15 percent ...
... dietary components can effectively reduce breast cancer risk; while all women should be advised ... decreases in both breast cancer incidence and breast cancer mortality have been apparent in recent years ...
... diagnosed with and dying of cancer. The researchers examined how black-white disparities have in cancer mortality have changed over time for all sites combined, for smoking-related cancers, and for ...
A new American Cancer Society study finds that recent progress in closing the gap in overall cancer mortality between African-Americans and whites may be due primarily to smoking- ...
