Mexican Americans Face Higher Odds for Liver Cancer With Each New Generation

• Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
• November 22, 2023
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The risk of developing liver cancer appears to be rising with each successive generation of Mexican-Americans, especially men, a new report finds.

"Liver cancer is becoming a growing concern among Latinos, underscoring the importance of comprehending the factors driving ...

Sugary Drinks Raise Women's Odds for Liver Disease, Cancer

• Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
• August 9, 2023
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There are plenty of reasons to steer clear of sugary drinks, and new research highlights yet another one: Women who drink sodas and other sweetened drinks have a higher risk of developing liver cancer and chronic liver disease.

Looking at data on nearly 100,000 women, r...

Certain Cancers on the Rise Among Hispanic Americans

• Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter
• July 3, 2023
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Cancer death rates among Hispanic Americans have declined in general over the past two decades, but for certain cancers the outlook has only gotten worse, a new study finds.

First, the good news: Thanks to improvements in screening, diagnosis and treatment -- and a decli...

Combo Therapy May Prevent Cancer's Return After Liver Surgery

• Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• April 24, 2023
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A two-drug combination therapy can enhance survival odds for people with early-stage liver cancer through targeted attacks on tumor cells, a new clinical trial shows.

The combo -- atezolizumab (Tecentriq) and bevacizumab (Avastin) -- reduced risk of cancer recurrence or ...

Fighting Liver Cancer Takes Big Financial Toll: Study

• Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter
• February 2, 2023
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Out-of-pocket costs can leave Medicare patients with the most common type of liver cancer in financial distress.

While Medicare payments in the first year after diagnosis with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) exceeded $65,000, out-of-pocket costs were more than $10,000,

PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Are Linked With Liver Cancer

• By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
• August 10, 2022
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A chemical called perfluooctane sulfate (PFOS) has been linked to the most common type of liver cancer, a new study indicates.

PFOS are used in a wide range of consumer and industrial products, and are referred to as "forever chemicals"because they break down very slowly...

Hepatitis C Infection Can Kill, But Less Than a Third of Patients Get Treatment

• Ernie Mundell and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters
• August 4, 2022
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Less than one-third of people with hepatitis C get treatment for this potentially deadly, but curable, infection within a year of their diagnosis, a new government report warns.

Spread by contact w...

Could Lots of Sugary Sodas Raise a Woman's Odds for Liver Cancer?

• Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter
• June 14, 2022
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Sodas and other sugar-sweetened drinks may raise a woman's odds of developing liver cancer, new research suggests.

A study of more than 90,000 postmenopausal women found that those who drank at least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day had a 78% higher risk, compared with...

Missed Cancer Screenings During Pandemic Could Raise Death Rate for Years

• March 21, 2022
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The early months of the COVID-19 pandemic kept millions of Americans away from routine cancer screenings. Now a new study finds that many U.S. screening programs were still not back to normal by 2021.

The study, of more than 700 cancer facilities nationwide, found that i...

Biden Relaunches Cancer Moonshot Initiative

• Robert Preidt and Robin Foster
• February 3, 2022
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President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he is giving a new push to the cancer moonshot initiative that he first led during the Obama administration.

In his announcement, Biden said the program ...

Most Americans Don't Know Alcohol Can Raise Cancer Risk

• Robert Preidt
• January 31, 2022
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Most American adults don't know that alcohol boosts cancer risk, but a majority support steps to increase awareness of the link, a new nationwide survey shows.

""It is important that people are made fully aware of the potential harms of alcohol so that they may make info...

Pre-Op Treatment May Be Advance Against Deadly Liver Cancers

• Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter
• January 28, 2022
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When delivering a liver cancer diagnosis, Dr. Thomas Marron pulls no punches: "Liver cancer is one of the deadliest cancers," he tells patients.

Jeffrey Foster heard a similar message loud and clear when he was first diagnosed by another doctor with hepatocellular carcin...

More Than 10 Million People Died of Cancer Worldwide in 2019

• Cara Murez
• January 4, 2022
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Cancer remains a major killer, with 10 million deaths reported worldwide in 2019.

More than 23 million new cases were documented globally in 2019, according to researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

By comparison, in 2010 there were 8.29 m...

Heavier Drinking During Pandemic Means More Liver Disease to Come

• December 24, 2021
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It's clear that COVID-19 has killed many hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. Less clear is its impact on other health issues, which will be felt in the years to come.

Liver disease is projected to be one of those, with 8,000 additional deaths from

Cancer Care Costs U.S. $156 Billion Per Year; Drugs a Major Factor

• Robert Preidt
• October 13, 2021
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Private insurers paid out about $156.2 billion in 2018 for U.S. patients with the 15 most common cancers.

Medication was the largest expense and drugs for breast, lung, lymphoma and colon cancers accounted for the largest chunk of those costs, according to a Penn State C...

Cancer in Hispanics: Good News and Bad

• Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter
• September 23, 2021
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Hispanic people in the United States have lower cancer rates than white people, but they are much more likely to develop certain preventable cancers.

"The good news is that overall cancer rates are lower in Hispanic people, but we are seeing very high rates of infectious...

Common Form of Liver Cancer on the Rise in Rural America

• Steven Reinberg
• September 21, 2021
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Liver cancer is on the rise in rural America, but on a downswing in cities, new research shows.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer and the fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in the United States. It's rising at an annual rate of ne...

Immune-Based Therapy May Help Some Battling Advanced Colon Cancers

• Robert Preidt
• August 11, 2021
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Immunotherapy helped extend the lives of some patients with the most common type of advanced colon cancer, researchers report.

The new findings are important, they noted, because immunotherapy doesn't typically work against microsatellite stable (MSS) colon cancer. These...