Accepting applications until August 1
Accepting applications until August 1
Marianna De Camargo Cancela, Jonas Eduardo Monteiro Dos Santos, Leonardo Borges Lopes de Souza, et al.
About half of cancer deaths in Brazil occur among individuals of working-age (under 65 years for men, under 60 for women), resulting in a substantial economic impact for the country. Between 2001 and 2030, a total of 2.3 million p... Read More
Danielle Wing Lam Ng, Serana Chun Yee So, Richard Fielding, et al.
Existing evidence of returning-to-work (RTW) after cancer comes predominately from Western settings, with none prospectively examined since the initial diagnostic phase. This study prospectively documents RTW-rate, time-to-RTW, wo... Read More
Cara Anthony, Blake Farmer. KFF Health News / Nashville Public Radio. 2026 Jun 16.
More than a dozen cancers are now rising among U.S. adults under 50, with colorectal and breast cancers increasing the most; colorectal cancer is now the deadliest cancer for Americans ages 18 to 49. No single cause has been ident... Read More
Hee Chul Yang, Austin Chang, Maxime Visa, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Nov 3;8(11):e2546222
Lung cancer is increasingly diagnosed in never-smokers, suggesting that the current US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) screening criteria using low-dose computed tomography exclude many at-risk individuals, thus raising co... Read More
Evan Weber, Carlos A Carmona-Gonzalez, Melanie Boucher, et al. Curr Oncol. 2025 May 22;32(6):290
Pathogenic variants in breast cancer predisposition genes are associated with poor clinical outcomes but also offer an opportunity for more individualized therapeutic pathways. Given increasing knowledge, improvements in germline... Read More
Zoulikha Rezoug , Stephanie P Totten, David Szlachtycz, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Sep 3;7(9):e2431427
Between 5% and 10% of breast cancer cases are associated with an inherited germline pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant (GPV) in a breast cancer susceptibility gene (BCSG), which could alter local and systemic therapy recommen... Read More
Kirkpatrick B Fergus, Katherine S Ross, Maren T Scheuner, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2026 Mar 1;186(3):344-352
Among 23 098 women who completed germline genetic testing (mean age, 54.3 years), 714 (3.1%) carried a PV. Excluding 109 who were previously aware of their PV, the detection rate was 2.6%. PVs were most common in CHEK2 (337) and A... Read More
Yoshie Takatori-Shirakami, Mitsue Saito, Kazuhito Yokoyama. Breast Cancer. 2025 Jan;32(1):101-108
In Japan, biennial mammography screening has been recommended for the early detection of breast cancer (BC) in women aged 40 years or above since 2004 by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. We used a dynamic life table mode... Read More
Sara P Myers, Yue Zheng, Kate Dibble, Elizabeth A Mittendorf, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Nov 4;7(11):e2446091
Young adults aged 18 to 39 years represent the minority of breast cancer diagnoses but are particularly vulnerable to financial hardship. A total 1008 patients were included (median age at diagnosis, 36 years). Patients' tumors we... Read More
Tamara Hamlish, Michelle L Foster, Sarah Strom, et al. BMC Womens Health. 2025 Feb 25;25(1):86
We conducted descriptive statistical analysis of survey data from 315 women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 45. We found significant changes following diagnosis in employment and insurance. Prior to diagnosis, 68.6% of res... Read More
Louisa Gordon, Paul Scuffham, Sandi Hayes, Beth Newman. Psychooncology. 2007 Dec;16(12):1130-9
The economic impact on individuals with breast cancer is not well understood. We sought to identify and describe the direct and indirect economic losses to breast cancer survivors in Australia. A longitudinal, population-based stu... Read More
Melanie Lloyd, Divya Bassi, Ella Zomer, Zanfina Ademi. Cancer Epidemiol. 2025 Feb:94:102726
Breast cancer exerts a considerable burden on an individual's health but also impacts society more broadly through lost work productivity. This study aimed to measure the quality of life and productivity burden among Australian fe... Read More