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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2008;299(19):2264.

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Lack of progress in curbing tobacco use and in providing adequate access to health care and cancer screening tests could negatively affect cancer survivorship, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/CPED_2008.pdf).

The society's annual report, Cancer Prevention & Early Detection Facts and Figures 2008, reveals that approximately 21% of adults and 23% of high school students currently smoke and that the prevalence of smoking in high school students remained about the same from 2003 to 2005, after declining from 1997 to 2003.

Mammography rates, which increased for more than a decade, have been stable or slightly declining since 2000. Only slightly more than half of women aged 40 years or older reported having a mammogram within the past year. The lowest prevalence of mammography use occurred among women who lacked health insurance.

Screening rates for colorectal cancer have improved in . . . [Full Text of this Article]