Archives: October 2015

• 2nd Cancers Rising in America

  October 29, 2015
  While overall new cases of cancer diagnosed in America are showing a downward trend, the rate of diagnosis for second cancers is on the uptick. Second cancers are not recurrences or spreading of the original disease. They are a new type of cancer or a new site of disease that is diagnosed in someone who has previously undergone treatment. The...read more

• Is America Falling Behind in Prostate Cancer Screening?

  October 15, 2015
  New recommendations from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force coming out against using certain prostate cancer screening tests may be causing a backslide in early diagnosis, researchers are finding. The full implications of the backslide are not yet fully understood, but they have some doctors concerned that failure to diagnose may lead to an increased risk of death when...read more