Less prostate cancer cancer screening cuts over treatment in half

Missed aggressive cases rise slightly

CANCER DIGEST – April 23, 2022 – The incidence of the lowest-risk prostate cancer was cut in half following implementation of new guidelines in 2018, according to a new analysis of cancer data.

The results published in the March 28, 2022 Journal of the National Cancer Institute, showed that only 10 percent of radical prostatectomy specimens were found to be low-grade cancers, showing that

Researchers think they now know how exercise reduces bowel cancer risk

CANCER DIGEST – April 9, 2022 – It has long been known that exercise reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, but the biological mechanism for how it does that has been unknown, until now. 

Researchers at Newcastle University in the UK believe they have identified the exercise-released substance that affects cancer. Their study first appeared online Feb. 25, 2022 in the International Journal of Cancer.

Half of all women have false positive mammograms after 10 years of annual screening

Photo credit UC Davis Health

CANCER DIGEST – April 2, 2022 – Half of women who have an annual mammogram will experience a false positive result over 10 years of screening, according to a new analysis of breast cancer screening data published in the March 25, 2022 journal JAMA Network.