Cancer Article Summaries

Selected articles that are authored or coauthored by staff of CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control are summarized on the following pages. See all of CDC’s cancer research.

2020

• August 25, 2020: Bimanual Pelvic Exams and Pap Tests among Girls and Young Women
• July 10, 2020: Dense Breast Notification After Mammography

2019

• November 12, 2019: Cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States
• October 24, 2019: Many Older Adults Don’t Protect Their Skin From the Sun

2018

• September 27, 2018: Rates of Children and Teens Getting Cancer by State or Region
• June 14, 2018: Use of Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests by State
• March 22, 2018: HPV Vaccines and Cervical Precancers

2017

• December 7, 2017: Cancer Survival in the United States
• December 5, 2017: Certain People with Colorectal Cancer Are Less Likely to Get an Important Test
• September 14, 2017: Race, Sex, and Age Can Make a Difference in Surviving HPV-Associated Cancers
• September 6, 2017: Cost of Cancer-Related Neutropenia or Fever Hospitalizations
• September 6, 2017: Some Older Women Are Not Getting Recommended Cervical Cancer Screenings
• July 5, 2017: Most Schools Can Do More to Help Students Stay Sun Safe
• June 2017: Indoor Tanning Among Adults in the United States
• May 30, 2017: Parents and Friends Can Influence Teens’ Decisions About Starting Indoor Tanning
• May 3, 2017: Deaths from Colorectal Cancer in U.S. Counties with Lower Education Levels
• May 1, 2017: Money Worries Affect How Some Cancer Patients Take Prescribed Medicines
• January 27, 2017: Cancer Screening Prevalence Among Adults with Disabilities
• January 3, 2017: Economic Evaluation of CDC’s Colorectal Cancer Control Program

2016

• December 1, 2016: State of the Science on Melanoma Prevention and Screening
• November 16, 2016: Developing a Cost Data Collection Tool for Cancer Registry Planning
• November 2, 2016: Anxiety and Depression Medicine Use Among Cancer Survivors
• October 13, 2016: Breast Cancer Rates Among Black Women and White Women
• September 8, 2016: Schools Can Help Prevent Skin Cancer
• August 10, 2016: Lung Cancer Survivors May Feel Blame
• April 11, 2016: New Cases of Melanoma Among Hispanics in the United States
• March 9, 2016: Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975–2012

2015

• September 2015: Gallbladder Cancer Incidence and Death Rates
• September 2015: Sunscreen Use Among Adults in the United States
• July 2, 2015: Expected New Cancer Cases and Deaths in 2020
• April 29, 2015: Assessment of HPV Types in Cancers
• April 23, 2015: Use of the Persuasive Health Message Framework in a Mammography Promotion Campaign
• April 23, 2015: African American Women and Mass Media Campaign Evaluation
• January 28, 2015: Cancer Survival: The Start of Global Surveillance