Each week on DocWire News, editors bring you the latest in oncology news and cancer research. In case you missed it, here are this week’s top headlines:

• Environmental and Occupational Determinants of MDS
• Incidence of Stage I NSCLC at Diagnosis Up in the U.S.
• Age-Related Disease Risks Up for Younger B-NHL Survivors
• GVHD Is Associated with Reduced Antibody Response to COVID-19 Vaccine

Keep reading for the breakdown on these top stories.

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Environmental and Occupational Determinants of MDS

Researchers conducted a case-control study to assess environmental and occupational determinants as risk factors of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) in a Pakistani population. The results were published in Cancer Reports.

In this case-control study, researchers analyzed 600 participants, including 150 de novo MDS cases and 450 age and gender-matched controls. They collated disease characteristics, sociodemographics, and exposure to environmental and occupational determinants, assessed via a questionnaire.

The results showed that individuals who were exposed to arsenic or benzene, using a natural source of water, and patients who were smokers were more likely to have MDS. Also, unmarried people were less likely to acquire MDS than married people. The results also showed that uneducated participants were more likely to have MDS than educated participants, and powdered milk drinkers were more likely to have MDS than dairy milk drinkers.

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Incidence of Stage I NSCLC at Diagnosis Up in the U.S.

In the United States, more patients are being diagnosed with stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and five-year survival for NSCLC has increased, according to a study published online Oct. 21 in JAMA Oncology.

Apar Kishor Ganti, M.D., from VA Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System in Omaha, and colleagues calculated the most recent epidemiologic estimates of NSCLC in the United States using data from the U.S. Cancer Statistics database (2010 to 2017).

The researchers found 1.28 million new NSCLC cases during the study period (53% men; 67% ≥65 years). Overall, there was a decrease in NSCLC incidence from 46.4 per 100,000 in 2010 to 40.9 per 100,000 in 2017 (age <65 years: 15.5 to 13.5 per 100,000; age ≥65 years: 259.9 to 230.0 per 100,000). There was stability in the incidence of stage II, IIIA, and IIIB NSCLC, while the incidence of stage IV disease decreased slightly from 21.7 to 19.6 per 100,000. There was an increase in stage I NSCLC incidence from 10.8 to 13.2 per 100,000. More than one-quarter of patients survived five years (26.4%). Among patients with stage IV NSCLC, more of those 65 years of age and older received no treatment (38.3%) compared with those younger than 65 years (22.8%).

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Age-Related Disease Risks Up for Younger B-NHL Survivors

Younger B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (B-NHL) survivors have increased relative risks for specific age-related diseases (acute renal failure, pneumonia, and nutritional deficiencies) compared with older survivors relative to their peers in the general population, according to a study published online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.