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Weekly JAMA Feature for May 4
STOMACH CANCER RATES RISING IN YOUNGER AMERICANS
JAMA RADIO REPORT
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
Each week, JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association produces a one-minute radio news package, and makes it available to stations free of charge at www.TheJAMAReport.org
Producers can download MP3 versions of the packages, and are free to edit the pieces and/or use the actualities as best suits their stations’ needs.
This week’s package has an embargo: 4pm(ET) Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 4, 2010
VO: GASTRIC OR STOMACH CANCER IS THE FOURTH MOST COMMON TYPE OF CANCER AND THE SECOND MOST COMMON CAUSE OF CANCER DEATHS WORLDWIDE. STOMACH CANCER RATES IN THE U-S HAVE BEEN STEADILY DECLINING OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS IN ALL AGE AND RACE GROUPS, UNTIL NOW. A NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT NONCARDIA GASTRIC CANCER FOUND IN THE LOWER PART OF THE STOMACH IS INCREASING IN YOUNGER WHITE AMERICANS.
“We did identify a worrying increase in the youngest age group of Caucasian’s 25 to 39 in whom cancer of the lower stomach actually increased about three percent per year.”
VO: DR. CHARLES RABKIN FROM THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED GASTRIC CANCER RATES IN A QUARTER OF U-S ADULTS, AGED 25 TO 84 FOR 30 YEARS, FROM 1977 TO 2006. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We’re concerned that this may be a signal that there’s a new gastric cancer risk factor which will increase cancer rates in other groups as time goes on.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.
Radio script (TRT 1:00)
May 4, 2010
VO: GASTRIC OR STOMACH CANCER IS THE FOURTH MOST COMMON TYPE OF CANCER AND THE SECOND MOST COMMON CAUSE OF CANCER DEATHS WORLDWIDE. STOMACH CANCER RATES IN THE U-S HAVE BEEN STEADILY DECLINING OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS IN ALL AGE AND RACE GROUPS, UNTIL NOW. A NEW STUDY SHOWS THAT NONCARDIA GASTRIC CANCER FOUND IN THE LOWER PART OF THE STOMACH IS INCREASING IN YOUNGER WHITE AMERICANS.
“We did identify a worrying increase in the youngest age group of Caucasian’s 25 to 39 in whom cancer of the lower stomach actually increased about three percent per year.”
VO: DR. CHARLES RABKIN FROM THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE AND CO-AUTHORS STUDIED GASTRIC CANCER RATES IN A QUARTER OF U-S ADULTS, AGED 25 TO 84 FOR 30 YEARS, FROM 1977 TO 2006. THE STUDY APPEARS IN THIS WEEK’S JAMA, JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.
“We’re concerned that this may be a signal that there’s a new gastric cancer risk factor which will increase cancer rates in other groups as time goes on.”
VO: CATHERINE DOLF, THE JAMA REPORT.