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  1. 31-05-2023 | Cardiotoxicity | News | Article

    Anthracyclines may increase heart failure risk among YA cancer survivors

    This equated to a 2.6-fold increased risk with anthracycline exposure after accounting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, history of hypertension or CVD, and secondary cancer diagnosis.

  2. 06-02-2023 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    Disparities exist in care of breast cancer patients from minority sexual orientation, gender groups

    “Adjustments for factors that were imbalanced between groups, including race and ethnicity, did not affect these estimates for SGM groups significantly in a sensitivity analysis,” say Eckhert and colleagues.

  3. 10-01-2023 | COVID-19 | News | Article

    Antibody testing may identify cancer patients at increased risk of COVID-19 breakthrough infections

    This equated to a significant 3.05-fold increased risk of breakthrough infection after adjustment for age, sex, ethnicity and deprivation levels.

  4. 12-10-2022 | Small-cell lung cancer | News | Article

    First-line serplulimab plus chemo improves extensive-stage SCLC survival

    Noura Choudhury and Gregory Riely, both from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, USA, draw attention to some of the limitations of the trial, such as the lack of an optimal control, “discordance from the population of US patients with SCLC” with regard to race and ethnicity, and the high proportion of nonsmokers in the study.

  5. 03-10-2022 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    High IL-6, CRP may predict increased frailty after breast cancer chemotherapy

    After accounting for age, race/ethnicity, education, BMI, cancer stage and treatment, medication use, and comorbidity, the researchers found that people with high IL-6 at baseline were a significant 2.42 times more likely to have a decline in frailty status than those with low IL-6.

  6. 05-08-2022 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Yearly PSA screening may reduce PCSM risk among Black men

    A cohort study has found a significant association between annual prostate-specific antigen screening and a reduced risk for prostate cancer-specific mortality among non-Hispanic Black, but not White, men.

  7. 01-07-2022 | Immunotherapy | News | Article

    FDA approval did not quash socioeconomic immunotherapy access disparities

    Race was not associated with immunotherapy use in people with RCC or melanoma, but Hispanic ethnicity was associated with a lower likelihood of immunotherapy use in melanoma (OR=0.28).

  8. 27-06-2022 | Lung cancer | News | Article
    News in brief

    Updated USPSTF lung cancer screening criteria may reduce racial inequalities in uptake

    US research suggests that the expansion of the US Preventive Services Taskforce eligibility criteria for lung cancer screening in 2021 may be helping to lessen racial disparities in the uptake of screening.

  9. 10-05-2022 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Prostate cancer death linked to increases in BMI, waist size

    Multivariable analysis adjusting for a raft of factors such as age, ethnicity, geographic region, smoking status, and physical activity showed that each 0.05 increase in the waist-to-hip ratio was associated with a 7% increased risk for death from prostate cancer.

  10. 22-03-2022 | Non-small-cell lung cancer | News | Article

    ‘More effort needed’ to optimize use of standard early NSCLC therapies

    “Notably, there was no significant association of race and ethnicity with any of these outcomes,” say the study authors.

  11. 16-02-2022 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    BMI, cancer treatment mediate elevated cardiometabolic risk in breast cancer

    The case–control study included 14,942 patients with noninvasive breast cancer enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California cancer registry who were matched on birth year, race, and ethnicity, with 74,702 women in the database who did not have a breast cancer diagnosis.

  12. 11-01-2022 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Better outcomes with radiotherapy for Black versus White prostate cancer patients

    Black men with localized prostate cancer fare better than their White counterparts after definitive radiotherapy, suggests a meta-analysis.

  13. 20-10-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    Earlier breast screening for Black women may reduce racial mortality gaps

    Initiating biennial breast screening for Black women at age 40 years rather than the US standard of 50 years could substantially reduce Black–White breast cancer mortality disparities without increasing harms, modelling data suggest.

  14. 28-10-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    Physicians misjudge breast cancer genetic screening barriers for African Americans

    A survey of US oncologists and physicians has shown that their perceived barriers toward genetic counseling and testing for breast cancer vary by patients' race.

  15. 09-11-2021 | COVID-19 | News | Article

    Recent cancer treatment linked to poor COVID-19 outcomes

    The researchers report in JAMA Oncology that individuals with recent cancer treatment had a significant 1.74-fold higher odds of death within 30 days of COVID-19 diagnosis than people without cancer after adjustment for potential confounders including age, sex, race and ethnicity, and severe obesity among others.

  16. 07-10-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    SLE is a risk factor for death in older women with breast cancer

    Multivariable cox regression analysis identified SLE as a significant and independent risk factor for death among early breast cancer patients, increasing the risk by as much as 98% after adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, hormonal status, sociodemographic factors, and propensity scores.

  17. 23-08-2021 | Breast cancer | News | Article

    COVID-19-related drop in breast cancer screening may worsen pre-existing disparities

    Velázquez et al hypothesize that “these differences by race/ethnicity are multilevel and reflect the effect of worry, competing priorities, limited access, and disproportionate burden and socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Latinx and Black communities.”

  18. 13-08-2021 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Active surveillance ‘an appropriate option’ for some African–American prostate cancer patients

    A US study has found no significant difference in outcomes between African–American and White men undergoing active surveillance for intermediate-risk prostate cancer.

  19. 26-07-2021 | Prostate cancer | News | Article

    Care of Black prostate cancer patients disproportionately affected during COVID-19

    Black men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer were significantly less likely than their White counterparts to undergo prostatectomy during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports a US research team.

  20. 22-06-2021 | ASCO 2021 | Conference coverage | Article

    COVID-19: Remote patient monitoring proves effective for outpatient management

    There were no significant differences between patients who did and did not undergo RPM in terms of age, sex, race, or ethnicity.

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