Breast cancer remains one of the most common cancers affecting women worldwide, and India is no exception. Although awareness about breast health has improved, many women still seek medical attention ...

Carter-Bawa is a behavioral scientist and director of the Cancer Prevention Precision Control Institute at the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation. For years, federal policymakers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. Lung cancer screening remains strikingly underused, with ...

Have you had a colonoscopy? It’s a simple question, but for many people it can bring feelings of anxiety, worry or even embarrassment. That’s completely normal, and sometimes it makes people hesitant ...

New federal guidelines will make it easier for women to get screened for cervical cancer. According to the new recommendations by the Health Resources and Services Administration, women between the ...

Fear of discomfort and unnecessary treatment often deters patients from prostate cancer screening, despite the benefits of early detection. Prostate cancer can be asymptomatic, making early detection ...

When David Thau, a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., was 34, he periodically experienced pain in his stomach, irregular bowel movements, blood in his stool and vomiting, and he visited doctors who ...

It’s been a year since Australia launched its National Lung Cancer Screening Program. Since July 2025, about 100,000 ...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and doctors are sounding the alarm about a concerning rise in colorectal cancer cases — especially among adults under 50. On New York Living, we ...

Cervical cancer screening (including HPV and Pap tests) is a critical tool in the early detection of precancerous cells in the cervix. It can even prevent this type of cancer entirely by enabling ...

The FDA could approve the first blood test that can detect multiple cancers, around the end of the year, setting the stage for it to become widely available.