The new facility aims to give residents on the South Side better access to cancer care, while also attracting patients from ...
A lack of health insurance coverage raises the risk that cancers among Black and Hispanic Americans will be caught ...
This disparity persisted even after accounting for factors like age, cancer stage, insurance coverage and neighborhood income levels. White patients were more than twice as likely as Black patients to ...
Black patients with cutaneous melanoma of the head and neck have the highest disease-specific mortality risk, rates of distant disease, and rates of tumor ulceration, as well as the lowest ...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- The American Cancer Society is urging Black women to use their voices to help fight breast cancer. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the push to get Black women ...
In conclusion, Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an opportunity to reflect on the importance of breast health, particularly within the Black community. By redefining self-care to include breast ...
Currently, cancer therapy trial-and-error methodology is inefficient and unsustainable. Oncology is the worst therapeutic area for drug trial success; only 3.4% of ...
Scoyler later became the world's first brain cancer patient to receive pre-surgery combination immunotherapy, "an experimental treatment hoping to advance the understanding of brain cancer," the ...
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds.
About 76% of the patients were white, just over 7.4% were Hispanic and 6.75% were Black. Patients averaged 77 years of age at the time of their surgeries, although minority patients tended to be ...
Although a combination of certain pain medications has been found to be more effective than opioids alone at managing discomfort after surgery, Black patients are less likely to receive this level ...
Black patients have a 22% higher odds for dying in the hospital following a bypass surgery compared to white patients Black bypass patients also face higher odds for cardiac arrest after their ...