{"id":200864,"date":"2024-12-06T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/prevention-and-screening-outpace-treatment-advances-for-averting-death-from-five-cancer-types-study-reveals"},"modified":"2024-12-06T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:56:13","slug":"prevention-and-screening-outpace-treatment-advances-for-averting-death-from-five-cancer-types-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/prevention-and-screening-outpace-treatment-advances-for-averting-death-from-five-cancer-types-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Prevention and screening outpace treatment advances for averting death from five cancer types, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/prevention-and-screening-outpace-treatment-advances-for-averting-death-from-five-cancer-types-study-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<\/p>\n<p>The study, published Dec. 5, 2024, in <i>JAMA Oncology<\/i>, looked at deaths from breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer that were averted by the combination of prevention, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/screening\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">screening<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> advances.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers focused on these five cancers because they are among the most common causes of cancer deaths and strategies exist for their prevention, early detection, and\/or treatment. In recent years, these five cancers have made up nearly half of all new cancer diagnoses and deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improvements in cancer prevention and screening have averted more deaths from five cancer types combined over the past 45 years than treatment advances, according to a modeling study led by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The study, published Dec. 5, 2024, in JAMA Oncology, looked at deaths from breast, cervical, colorectal, lung, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}