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...
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...