insert_link Health & Wellness COVID-19 Pandemic Delayed Breast Cancer Screening in Many Parts of the United States When the COVID-19 pandemic first started, many medical procedures considered non-urgent were delayed or cancelled. This was primarily for two reasons: to save medical resources, including doctors’ and technicians’ time, personal protective equipment, medicines, and emergency room and intensive care unit beds, for people who were infected with COVID-19 to help reduce the risk of people becoming infected with COVID-19 by keeping them out of hospitals and other care facilities […] todayOctober 6, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness The Colorectal Cancer Symptoms You Need to Know, Even If You’re Young When actor Chadwick Boseman died at the shockingly young age of 43 from colorectal cancer, people across the world started googling and wondering: "What IS colorectal cancer?" "What are the signs?" "Am I at risk?" Colon and rectal cancer rates have declined in older adults in recent years, but researchers have uncovered an alarming trend: Diagnoses in Millennials and Generation X are actually on the rise, according to a 2017 […] todaySeptember 25, 2020
insert_link Health & Wellness Anal Cancer Deaths Are Rising In the U.S.—Here’s How to Spot the Symptoms Cases of anal cancer are increasing in the U.S., according to new research—and more people are dying of the disease. For the study, which was published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, researchers looked at trends in anal cancer cases over 15 years. During that time, they detected about 69,000 cases and more than 12,000 deaths. Cases of squamous cell carcinoma of the anus increased 2.7% each year, […] todayNovember 26, 2019
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