- MedPageToday reports that a meta-analysis from the journal Cancer showed that tamoxifen reduces breast cancer risk and improves life expectancy and does so in a cost-effective manner when targeted to postmenopausal women younger than 55.
- Dr. David Christiani of Harvard writes about the President’s Cancer Panel’s efforts to strengthen regulations regarding environmental cancer research in this editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- Dr. Elizabeth Gurney blogs about preventative healthcare for lesbian and bisexual women, including references to studies which claim that while lesbian women have higher rates of cancer risk factors such as nulliparity, obesity, alcohol and tobacco use, they receive fewer Pap smears than heterosexual women. However, lesbian women do seem to receive mammograms at similar rates as heterosexual women.
- Student Matthew J. To blogs about his experiences interning for a cancer survivorship research center in Canada, and about what he learned about the complex and varied needs of cancer survivors. The National Cancer Institute funds cancer survivorship research and also provides resources for cancer survivors. Memorial Sloan-Kettering offers a number of cancer survivorship programs, including a free survivorship newsletter, Bridges.
- Fierce Mobile Healthcare and MobiHealthNews both blogged about studies related to the effectiveness of text message alert services meant to help smokers quit.
- Gary Schwitzer offers continuing coverage of the science and politics behind various cancer screening tests.