September 8, 2010 — The Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries (GTF.CCC), made up of global health and oncology experts, works toward developing and implementing strategies to provide poorer countries with cancer prevention and treatment. Discussion of the task force’s agenda to expand cancer care in low and middle-income countries was recently published in the journal The Lancet.

September 8, 2010 — Among women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation, prophylactic mastectomy (preventive removal of the breasts) reduces the risk of getting breast cancer. Prophylactic salpingo-oophorectomy (preventive removal of the fallopian tubes and ovaries) reduces the risk both breast and ovarian cancer. These results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

September 7, 2010 — Some of the elevated risk of prostate cancer among those with a family history of the disease may be due to increased prostate cancer testing and detection in this population. These findings were recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.