Stomach bug hit-and-run
July 24, 2020
The bacterium Helicobacter pylori colonizes the stomach in half of the world’s population and increases the risk of gastric cancer.
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Criteria for lung cancer screens may be expanded
July 24, 2020
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is recommending two changes that will nearly double the number of people eligible for lung cancer screening by lowering the age from 55 to 50 and reducing the number of smoking history pack years from 30 to 20.
Study shows better option for treatment of inoperable anal cancer
June 25, 2020
“The InterAAct trial identifies carboplatin-paclitaxel as the optimal chemotherapy regimen in the first-line setting for inoperable anal cancer,” said lead United States investigator Cathy Eng, MD, David H.
Progression of inflammatory lung disease analyzed
April 01, 2020
A Vanderbilt University Medical Center interim analysis shows that there appears to be a considerable length of time before a subset of people develop inflammatory, scarring lung diseases where there is radiologically detectable evidence they will develop lung disease.
Questions and answers on epidemiology of COVID-19
March 26, 2020
Though he specializes in chronic disease, epidemiologist Qi Dai, MD, PhD, professor of Medicine, has been closely following the international scientific literature on SARS-CoV-2 and the disease it causes, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). He answered questions on March 19, when total U.S.
Study reveals an inherited origin of prostate cancer in families
March 26, 2020
Vanderbilt researchers have identified haplotypes, ancestral fragments of DNA, that are associated with hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) in a first-of-its-kind genomic study made possible by the study of prostate cancer patients with family histories of the disease.