Can AI Improve Robotic Cancer Surgery Accuracy?
Yes. AI is helping robotic cancer surgery in a few concrete ways: sharper real time visualization during the operation, earlier warning of anatomical risks like nearby nerves or blood vessels, and more precise guidance while the tumor is being removed. It isn’t...
Can Obesity Increase Cancer Risk in Survivors?
Yes, and this one has more evidence behind it than most people expect. Obesity raises the odds of a new cancer developing after treatment, and for a lot of cancer types, it raises the odds of the original one coming back too. It’s not a minor lifestyle footnote...
Why Is Cancer Survival Rate at an All-Time High in 2026?
A few things stacked together, honestly, rather than one single breakthrough doing all the work. Years of research funding are finally paying off in the clinic, precision treatments have gone from rare to fairly standard for a lot of cancers, and screening is catching...
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...