Confusion causes rates to lag for colon-cancer screening
Houston Chronicle, March 24, 2012
March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month — a good time to remind Texans of the importance of being screened for colorectal cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, writes UTMB’s Dr. James S. Goodwin in this guest column. “These deaths can largely be prevented with appropriate screening. But our research shows that in Texas, the number of people getting screened varies greatly from region to region and among different age and ethnic groups.” The column also appears in the Daily News.
Most older adults need colon cancer screening
MSNBC, March 6, 2012
Most adults should get regularly screened for colon cancer between age 50 and 75, according to internal medicine doctors, with the time between screenings dependent on what method is used to check for early signs of cancer. While under-screening is a problem among certain groups, so is over-screening — especially among the oldest patients, according to Dr. James Goodwin, a geriatrician who has studied colon cancer screening at UTMB and wasn't involved in the new research. "The development of colon cancer ... occurs over many, many years," said Goodwin, who told Reuters Health that polyps caught by screening take 15 to 20 years to grow into a symptomatic cancer, on average. The Reuters article appears in news outlets around the globe, including in the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun.
Zwelling, Goodwin and Elting: Cancer survivors present unique new challenges
El Paso Times, Jan 29, 2012
More docs no help for racial colonoscopy gap
MedPage Today, Dec. 17, 2011
Communities that have more physicians available to perform colonoscopies actually have bigger — not smaller — disparities in screening rates between minority and white patients, according to a recent study of Texas Medicare claims data. In the study of claims for nearly 975,000 Texas Medicare beneficiaries, colonoscopy use was higher in whites (40.7 percent) than in blacks (35.0 percent) or Hispanics (28.7 percent), reported Dr. Taylor S. Riall and colleagues from UTMB
Personalized cancer care: Think big and small
Special to The Daily News, Dec 9, 2011
by CERCIT Investigators, Drs. James S. Goodwin, Leonard A. Zwelling and Linda Elting
Some facts to consider in prostate-cancer debate
Houston Chronicle, Oct 25, 2011
by CERCIT Investigators, Drs. Leonard A. Zwelling and James S. Goodwin
CERCIT Abstracts from the CPRIT 2nd Annual Innovations in Cancer Prevention and Research Conference in Austin on November 15-17, 2011
Screening for Cancer in Nursing Home Patients: Almost Always a Bad Idea
Morningside Ministries, mmLearn.org
Presentation by CERCIT Investigator, Dr. James S. Goodwin
Just how much does cancer cost in Texas?
Texas Public Health Journal, Vol 63, Issue 4, Fall 2011
by CERCIT collaborator, Dr. Alai Tan from UTMB. Findings are reported in the Cost of Cancer in Texas, 2005 from the Texas Cancer Registry.
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New research effort a win-win for all
Houston Chronicle, Sept 5, 2011
by CERCIT Collaborator, Dr. Leonard Zwelling