Earlier this year, we learned Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma a type of skin cancer shortly after being treated for breast cancer.Although details have not been confirmed, this is likely a new cancer that isnt a recurrence or metastasis of the first one.Australian research from Queensland and Tasmania shows adults who have had cancer have around a 6-36 per cent higher risk of developing a second primary cancer compared to the risk of cancer in the general population.Whos at risk of another, unrelated cancer
Author summary Why was this study done? Mental illness has been associated with a higher risk of cervical cancer and precancerous lesions as well as a lower degree of participation in cervical screening. Little is known, however, regarding disparities in HPV infection between women with and without mental illness. What did the researchers do and find? In a cohort study, we followed all 337,116 women who were at age 30 to 64, living in Stockholm, and had a negative test result of high-risk HPV during August 2014 to December 2019, to assess the link between mental illness and risk of infection with high-risk HPV. The absolute infection rate of HPV was 45% higher among women with a specialist diagnosis of mental disorder and 67% higher among women with a filled prescription of psychotropic medications, compared to women without such. What do these findings mean? Mental illness is associated with an increased infection rate of oncogenic HPV in women. Refined approaches are needed
Author summary Why was this study done? ➢ The burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) in China has been growing in recent years. ➢ More specific selection of individuals to undergo colonoscopy, based on both questionnaire-based risk assessment and fecal immunochemical test (FIT) results, could result in more efficiency allocation of colonoscopy resources. ➢ There is limited evidence on the colonoscopy screening yield when combining FITs and risk assessment through questionnaires. What did the researchers do and find? ➢ We calculated the baseline screening yield, participation, and cost per case detected in a national CRC screening program with a combined questionnaire-based risk assessment–FIT strategy. ➢ The baseline screening yield and participation rate were improved in the combined risk assessment–FIT group compared with risk factor assessment only group. ➢ The cost per CRC detected was $24,849 by the combined risk factor–FITs strategy, which was much
Using hospital records of 34 million adults admitted to hospitals in England, Marlous Hall and team examine the long-term risk of major health outcomes following myocardial infarction.