Cancer death rates in the US have been falling since 2001. This is great news. But there's a twist. While men have seen a drop in cancer diagnoses until 2013, women have seen a steady increase since 2003. This trend took a pause in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which disrupted medical care and screening. As a result, fewer cancers were caught early. This could m...

Cancer used to be a disease that mostly affected older adults. But things are changing. More young women are getting cancer now than before. For example, the Roark sisters from New Jersey. Kiki was only 37 when she found out she had breast cancer. Her sister Charmella got the same diagnosis six years later, at 44. Doctors didn't take Kiki seriously because she was yo...