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Study finds significant improvements in vascular health of chronic smokers who transition to e-cigarettes. Women see greater health benefits than men following switch to e-cigarettes. VESUVIUS is the largest study to-date on the vascular impact of e-cigarettes versus tobacco cigarettes.

Science hasn't yet caught up with electronic cigarettes, leaving health care providers and users with many unknowns. But a new review of the research so far finds growing evidence that vaping can harm the heart and blood vessels.

Patients with severe obesity who had bariatric or weight-loss surgery and lost more than 20% of their total weight were 50% less likely to develop cancer compared to patients who did not have as much weight loss after surgery, according to a new study* presented today by Oregon Health & Science University researchers at the 36th American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Annual Meeting at ObesityWeek 2019.

Teens who vape candy- or fruit-flavored e-cigarettes are more likely to stick with the habit and vape more heavily.

An article published ahead-of-print in the January 2020 issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology has identified sonographic biomarkers that can predict eventual malignant transformation of pathologically confirmed cirrhotic nodules for patients at risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). These additional imaging features may have the potential to be adopted as ancillary or even major features to stratify probability for HCC in the contrast-enhanced LI-RADS system.

University of East Anglia scientists are pioneering a new way of finding cancer-causing germs. Some infections have already been linked with cancers including stomach cancer and cervical cancer. New research shows how genomic data collected from tumours could be sequenced to reveal other associated bacteria and viruses.

Selecting candidates for lung cancer screening based on their gains to life expectancy could help to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of screening programs in the United States. This approach would recommend screening for ever-smokers who have both high lung cancer risk and long life-expectancy. Findings from a modeling study are published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The Cancer Atlas, 3rd edition, a comprehensive global overview of cancer around the globe, concludes that progress in the fight against cancer is not only possible, but achievable.