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March 15, 2024
Your appendix is a part of the digestive tract that most people only think about if it acts up with appendicitis. Unfortunately, in rare cases, it can also develop cancer—and young Hispanic people ar...
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March 15, 2024
Your appendix is a part of the digestive tract that most people only think about if it acts up with appendicitis. Unfortunately, in rare cases, it can also develop cancer—and young Hispanic people ar...
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March 01, 2024
More women of all races are dying of endometrial cancer, but the rate is much higher for Black women. White women’s rate went up by 0.6 per 100,000 people between 1990-94 to 2015-2019. The rate of de...
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February 28, 2024
By Priyanka Kanth, MD, Director, GI Cancer Prevention Program
In the late 1990s Colorectal cancer (CRC) was the fourth leading cause of cancer death in people under age 50, but cases are on the rise. Now, it’s the leading cause of cancer death in men, and secon...
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February 09, 2024
In 2023, stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, accounted for about 1.4% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the U.S., with an estimated 26,500 new cases diagnosed. Globally, it represents the 5t...
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February 07, 2024
By Pragnan Kancharla, MD, Hematologist/Oncologist at MedStar Health
Within the last ten years, advances in cancer treatments have begun to offer more hope than ever before. One such treatment is immunotherapy, which uses the body’s own immune system to fight dis...
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January 24, 2024
By Irina Tunnage, DO, MHS, Gynecological Oncologist at MedStar Health
Every year, 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer. In addition, 4,000 women will die from it every year, according to the American Cancer Society. The good news is that routine screenings a...