This study provides insight on the experiences of patients of a national health plan with 2 structural determinants of health—health care discrimination and health literacy—and how those interact with ...

It often feels like you can’t go a few weeks without hearing about someone you know or a friend of a friend or someone in the media who has received the diagnosis. According to the National Cancer ...

In the winter of 2023, Cynthia Smith, MD, an internal medicine physician in Philadelphia and the chief membership and engagement officer for the American College of Physicians, treated a ...

For many years, breast cancer screening has followed a simple rule: most women are advised to start having yearly mammograms ...

Lung cancer screening might be the best-kept secret in health care today. Only about 16 percent of those who are eligible in the U.S. get screened for lung cancer, but a study coming out in NEJM ...

The European Randomized Study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC) was initiated in 1993 to assess the effect of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing on prostate cancer mortality. Because ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, a group of researchers evaluated the effectiveness and outcomes of various cervical cancer screening strategies for women living with Human ...