by UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center Credit: CC0 Public Domain Despite California’s success in reducing tobacco use, a new study published today in JAMA Network Open demonstrates the continued and significant burden tobacco inflicts on people with cancer. The study was conducted by researchers at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center who used data collected from the California...
by Isabella Backman, Yale University Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell Reports (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110569 In the face of cancer, oncologists face a dual epidemic of overtreatment and undertreatment. Treating the disease often involves harsh chemotherapies and other interventions with extensive side effects. As a result, clinicians might delay treating a growth that looks harmless until it becomes life...
