#mortality

Higher rates of anxiety and depression are associated with higher mortality risk among women with ovarian cancer.

The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.

Data show that 1 in 5 men and women worldwide develop cancer during their lifetime, and 1 in 8 men and 1 in 11 women die from the disease.

It can take a few weeks before declines in hospitalizations and deaths follow a drop in new COVID-19 cases.

Findings call for implementation of policies and cancer control efforts to reduce alcohol consumption.

The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.

Women who stuck to a diabetes risk reduction diet after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis had a lower risk of death from breast cancer.

However, the gap between white and Black patients still remains.

Study finds that deaths from cancer accounted for more than 4 million potential years of life lost in 2017

While disease progression was higher in Black men, their rates of metastasis and mortality were similar to those of white men.

Among patients with high tumor PD-L1 expression, Libtayo lowered mortality by 43%.

“Some people who are experiencing COVID-19 are more susceptible due to the impacts of air pollution."

For each cancer type studied, mortality was between 11% and 50% higher in the counties with persistent poverty.

Only three states are expected to meet the 2030 goal.

Liver complications, heart disease and non-liver cancers also account for most deaths among people with hepatitis B or C.

The reduction in mortality was most evident during the first 10 years of follow-up after the first scan at age 40.