Why Are Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Declining?
If you ask five different doctors why fewer women are getting screened, you’ll probably get five overlapping but slightly different answers. Mine, after talking to Dr. Nayak about it, comes down to this: the pandemic broke a habit a lot of women hadn’t...
Can a Blood Test Detect Pancreatic Cancer Early?
Not with the blood work most people have in mind. If you’re picturing a routine complete blood count or a liver panel, that kind of test simply isn’t built to catch pancreatic cancer early. Part of why this cancer gets diagnosed so late is that it...
Why Is Thyroid Cancer Becoming More Common?
Thyroid cancer is being diagnosed more often mainly because doctors now use better and more frequent imaging tests, such as ultrasounds. These tests can find very small cancers that may never have caused problems. However, some larger and more serious thyroid cancers...
Why Is Breast Cancer Increasing in Younger Women?
Breast cancer’s still the most common past fifty, that part hasn’t changed. What has changed is the trend underneath it, diagnoses in women under fifty have been climbing steadily for two decades now. Not one single cause behind that. It’s a mix,...