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Opinion: What cancer survivorship can teach us about Covid-19

17.02.2021

Take it from this cancer survivor: We need to start focusing on Covid-19 survivorship now. I’ll never forget the first time I realized that a cancer diagnosis — regardless of …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Dear NHS: You need a control arm for Grail’s cancer test

12.02.2021

Editor’s note: On January 28, after this article had been submitted to STAT, the president of Grail Europe published a letter to the BMJ that responded to an editorial on …

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Health Tech

Could AI tools for breast cancer worsen disparities? Patchy public data in FDA filings fuel concern

11.02.2021

The great hope of artificial intelligence in breast cancer is that it can distinguish harmless lesions from those likely to become malignant. By scanning millions of pixels, AI promises to …

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Health

Global trends in lung cancer show continuing disparities

02.02.2021

With over 2 million new cases globally in 2018, lung cancer remains the most prevalent cancer in the world. And with tobacco use accounting for somewhere between 80% and 90% of lung cancers, …

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Health

New studies clarify which genes may raise breast cancer risk

26.01.2021

Two large studies give a much sharper picture of which inherited mutations raise the risk of breast cancer for women without a family history of the disease, and how common …

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Health

‘But I never smoked’: A growing share of lung cancer cases is turning up in an unexpected population

26.01.2021

Sharon Begley died of complications of lung cancer on Jan. 16, just five days after completing this article. She was a never-smoker. Breast cancer wouldn’t have surprised her; being among …

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First Opinion

Opinion: The FDA needs to apply its Covid-19 flexibility to pediatric cancer

06.01.2021

One of the few bright spots in the Covid-19 pandemic has been the swift development of therapies and vaccines that — beyond all odds — made it to patients in …

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Coronavirus

STAT’s most memorable photos of 2020

21.12.2020

This year was one that no one could have imagined — 2020 has been marked by devastation, by passion, and by change. Our photographers covered patients, hospitals, and medical workers …

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First Opinion

Opinion: Racial disparities in Covid-19 are bad. They’re even worse in cancer

15.12.2020

The currents of the racial justice movement and the Covid-19 pandemic have amplified persistent and pernicious disparities in access and outcomes across so many aspects of American life, including cancer …

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