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Results from a large new study released Sunday showed no health benefit to taking daily aspirin, at least among previously healthy people 70 and over. The results were published in three studies ...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/aspirinnejm2018/

A study out Wednesday suggests eating a lot of highly processed foods might be associated with higher rates of cancer. The study appears in BMJ, and the authors admit more study is needed, but wa...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/highly-processed-foods-cancer-risk/

A report out today had a lot of us scratching our heads, when it said that about 630,000 people in the U.S. were diagnosed with a cancer associated with overweight and obesity in 2014. That sound...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/10/03/behind-the-numbers-cancers-associated-with-obesity/

Despite increased awareness about the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, melanoma rates continue to rise in the United States. For “Don’t Fry Day” on May 26, the American Cancer Society...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/05/25/dont-fry-day-getting-sunscreen-right/

An analysis appearing in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds strong evidence that adding ventilation holes to cigarette filters has contributed to a rise in a type of lung cancer ...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/05/23/ventilated-filters-changing-the-face-of-lung-cancer-in-the-u-s/

Headlines across the Internet blared with the news over the past week that coffee could cut the risk of prostate cancer in half.  It was an irresistible headline. But just how reliable was the f...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/the-number-no-one-mentioned-in-the-prostate-cancercoffee-story-14/

A new study revisits an analysis made by the same lab in 2015 about the role of random mutations on cancer. The analysis uses computer modeling to estimate how many cancers are the result of repl...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/the-bad-luck-cancer-analysis-part-ii/

A groundbreaking study by American Cancer Society epidemiologist Rebecca Siegel, MPH finds that people born in the United States in 1990 have double the risk of colon cancer and quadruple the ris...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/acs-study-finds-colorectal-cancer-rates-have-risen-dramatically-in-gen-x-and-millennials/

Otis Brawley responds to new study that corrects cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates to account for hysterectomy, and finds both incidence and mortality of cervical cancer has been gros...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/cervical-rates-adjusted/

As the holidays approach and the year ends, a lot of people are looking for ways to give back, whether it’s gifts to loved ones or donations to their favorite charity (and of course we hope you...

https://acspressroom.wordpress.com/2016/12/07/flu2016/