In mid-January, a week before Donald Trump was sworn in as President, we asked what might happen to the Affordable Care Act […]
Posts Tagged ‘Epidemiology’
Does Sunlight Protect Us from Cancer?
Two researchers at the University of Sydney, Jacqueline Marshall and Scott Byrne, have just published a paper in Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences […]
Growing Cancer Burden for Women
The American Cancer Society (ACS) presented a paper at a congress in Paris this week, warning of an explosion in cancer deaths […]
‘Overdiagnosis’ in the Spotlight – Again
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) yesterday published a paper entitled “Breast-cancer tumor size, overdiagnosis, and mammography screening effectiveness.” Lead author […]
Fruit, Alcohol and Breast Cancer Risk
Last week’s British Medical Journal (BMJ) published two papers – one on fruit and vegetable consumption and the other on alcohol intake […]
Breast Cancer in Asia
Over the past two decades breast cancer has become a major health issue across the countries in the Pacific-Region where […]
An Illegitimate Dose Model?
In December 1946 the American scientist Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for the discovery of the production of […]
Global Trends in Breast Cancer Rates
Carol DeSantis has recently published an important paper entitled “International variation in female breast cancer incidence and mortality rates” in Cancer Epidemiology, […]
How Old is Breast Cancer?
Four years ago Siddhartha Mukherjee published his prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer that was featured in […]
Biological Bad Luck
Two scientists at Johns Hopkins University – applied mathematician Cristian Tomasetti and cancer biologist Bert Vogelstein – were having a brainstorming session […]