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Exploring the Rise of Obesity-Related Cancers: A Conversation With Dr Debra Patt
The issue of obesity-related cancers is the focus of this month’s issue of Evidence-Based Oncology™, a sister publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®, and during this week’s podcast, we sat down with Debra Patt, MD, MPH, MBA, vice president of Texas Oncology, about the issue, how the health system is addressing it, and how obesity affects different populations, such as postmenopausal women, differently.
Obesity is on the rise in the United States, with 7 states having obesity rates of at least 35% in 2017 compared with 0 states in 2012. Moreover, all states have obesity rates of more than 20%. And while the US has progressed in cancer survivorship and in preventing certain cancers, such as those related to smoking, the same progress hasn’t been seen among cancers related to obesity. In fact, obesity-related cancers have climbed in the past decade.
The issue of obesity-related cancers is the focus of this month’s issue of Evidence-Based Oncology™, a sister publication of The American Journal of Managed Care®, and during this week’s podcast, we sat down with Debra Patt, MD, MPH, MBA, vice president of Texas Oncology, about the issue, how the health system is addressing it, and how obesity affects different populations, such as postmenopausal women, differently.
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Abortion in 2025: Access, Fertility, and Infant Mortality Updates
February 20th 2025While Republican state-led efforts aim to increase restrictions to abortion care and access to mifepristone and misoprostol in 2025, JAMA authors join the conversation with their published research and commentary.
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Varied Access: The Pharmacogenetic Testing Coverage Divide
February 18th 2025On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the author of a study published in the February 2025 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® to uncover significant differences in coverage decisions for pharmacogenetic tests across major US health insurers.
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State-Level Data Show How Homicide, Suicide, Overdose Drive Pregnancy-Associated Mortality
February 11th 2025Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont were the only 3 states to not report any pregnancy-associated firearm-related deaths from 2018 to 2022, according to National Center for Health Statistics data.
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