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According to a new study published in Cancer, there was an 8% decline from July 2019 to 2020 in breast cancer screening rates in community clinics in low-income communities. If that trend continued through the remainder of 2020, there will have been more than 47,000 fewer mammograms performed and approximately 242 missed diagnoses.
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Rates of Breast Cancer Screenings Dipped in Low-Income Communities During Pandemic
A new study finds breast cancer screening rates (BCSRs) declined among women aged 50 to 74 years within 32 community health centers that serve lower-income populations during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The report, appearing in the journal Cancer, suggests that BCSRs within community clinics in low-income communities declined by 8% from July 2019 to July 2020, reversing an 18% improvement between July 2018 and July 2019.
This is one of the first studies to examine BCSRs among lower-income populations during the pandemic. Investigators led by Stacey Fedewa, PhD, of the American Cancer Society (ACS), examined BCSRs among 32 community health centers that provide health care services to communities of color and lower-income populations and received grant funding from the ACS to improve their BCSRs.
“This study is important because these populations have long-standing barriers to accessing care, lower breast screening rates, higher breast cancer mortality rates, and are especially vulnerable to health care disruptions,” Fedewa says.
Findings show that if 2018 to 2019 BCSR trends continued through 2020, 63.3% of women would have been screened for breast cancer in 2020 compared with the 49.6% of women that did get screened. These data translate to potentially 47,517 fewer mammograms and 242 missed breast cancer diagnoses.
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Racial Disparities in Asthma
Why do they exist, and what can physicians do? Read more »
Aducanumab’s Approval Sparks an Uproar
The inaugural disease-modifying drug for Alzheimer’s wins a controversial approval. Read more »
Recruiting and Retaining Alzheimer’s Patients for Clinical Trials
One challenge of developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease is recruiting enough eligible participants, coordinating site visits, and retaining patients throughout the length of an Alzheimer’s study. Read more » |
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Jabra Earbuds
For people with mild to moderate hearing loss who do not need to wear a hearing aid all day but who need to enhance sound in particular situations (eg, meetings or in conversation), GN Hearing has launched Jabra Enhance Plus, miniaturized wireless earbuds designed to be discreet and comfortable and personalized via user’s smartphone. Learn more »
A Better Way
With hospitals at full capacity due to COVID, at home medical support is more important than ever. With Better, experts work with doctors to determine the best urology and ostomy medical supplies. The supplies are bundled with personalized education and peer support and sent to the patient. Better also helps patients navigate insurance matters. Learn more » |
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Detecting Dementia Early
Can a couple of missed credit card payments or bad driving habits foretell the development of dementia? According to a report in The New York Times, researchers are exploring whether the signs of dementia may be indicated by certain behaviors and the likelihood that simple ways of tracking those behaviors, such as a GPS device in individuals’ cars, might help detect Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias earlier than by other means.
Overlooking COVID Long-Haulers
There’s no doubt that long-COVID is real or that it can be exceedingly debilitating, but patients afflicted feel unseen and unheard. Researchers, according to a report by Ed Yong in The Atlantic, aren’t approaching the phenomenon in a way that allows it to be fully understood.
Disparity in Glaucoma Research
Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness among Black individuals. While glaucoma research typically involves white patients, the disease not only affects Black patients far more commonly, it also appears many years earlier and develops more quickly. And due to past abuses, many in the Black community are reluctant to participate in the research that might help save their sight. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the disparity as well as on efforts to overcome the resistance to participation.
Accurately Predicting Alzheimer’s
According to Science Daily, a collaboration among leading Lithuanian researchers has led to the development of a deep-learning-based model that allowed them to classify functional MRI images of 138 subjects and predict the onset of Alzheimer’s disease with more than 99% accuracy. |
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