Low-Income Cancer Patients Are Less Informed: Study
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NEW YORK  - Higher-income individuals with  prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more  satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their  lower-income peers, new survey findings show.
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NEW YORK  - People with advanced cancer may suffer substantial emotional distress, but relatively few may be discussing it with their doctors, new research suggests.
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Breast cancer is less likely to return in patients who stick to a low-fat diet, according to a study released on Saturday.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations.
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People who have recovered from cancer are often refused travel insurance or charged more, a study says.
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Survey shows many doctors are not proactively discussing breast cancer awareness with patients
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According to a survey of low-income, rural women over age 40, nearly 7 out of 10 say their physicians have never prompted them to get a mammogram.
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There is an alarming ignorance about cancer and how to reduce the risk of  the disease, a survey suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Low socioeconomic status is a strong predictor of poor survival among patients from different ethnic groups with melanoma skin cancer, new research indicates.
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The rate of prostate cancer  among men with schizophrenia is lower than in the general  population, according to findings published in the journal  Urology.
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Seniors with lower income and less education are missing out on the rich online resources available for choosing doctors, prescription drug plans and treatment options, a health care research organization warned in releasing a new survey.
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Black women with early-stage breast  cancer have lower survival rates than their white counterparts  even after taking into account variables such as tumor size and  socioeconomic differences, researchers said.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so.
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Cancer patients can often feel baffled when offered a choice of treatments, a study has suggested.
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Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined dramatically from 1991 to 2002, suggesting that better oversight and less-toxic medicines have made cancer research safer, a study found.
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NEW YORK  - There are disparities in the treatment and outcome between older black and white patients who have renal cell cancer, with blacks having significantly lower survival rates, according to a new study.
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Breast cancer is less likely to  return in patients who stick to a low-fat diet, according to a  study released on Saturday.