May 24, 2021
FRIDAY, May 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Cancer prevention and early detection measures show mixed progress, according to a review published online May 19 in
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Priti Bandi, Ph.D., from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, and colleagues presented estimates of cancer risk factors and screening tests in 2018 and 2019 among U.S. adults, focusing on smoking cessation.
The researchers found that in 2019, cigarette smoking reached a historic low (14.2 percent), partly because 61.7 percent of all persons who had ever smoked had quit. Among lower-income, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and uninsured or Medicaid-insured persons, the quit ratio was