Glioblastoma: the warning signs and what comes after diagnosis
Classified as the most aggressive brain cancer by the WHO, glioblastoma is defined by how fast it grows, where it strikes, and how hard it fights back against treatment. Of all the brain tumors doctors encounter, glioblastoma occupies a category of its own. The World Health Organization classifies it as a grade 4 astrocytoma, the […]
Liver cancer: what doctors actually do depends on the stage
Liver cancer diagnosis doesn’t come with a single treatment path. What a patient receives depends on several converging factors — how far the disease has progressed, the size and number of tumors, and how well the liver itself is functioning. Two patients with the same diagnosis can end up with entirely different treatment plans, and […]
Breast cancer study reveals a timing factor worth paying attention to
Breast cancer treatment has long followed a familiar sequence. Surgery comes first, usually a lumpectomy or mastectomy, and radiation follows. For decades that order has been treated as standard. A study out of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, published in 2017, raised a question that the oncology field hadn’t fully confronted: what if […]
What is breast cancer and what happens inside the body
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers diagnosed in women in the United States, and statistically, its reach is wide. One in 8 women will develop it at some point in their life. Men account for less than 1% of cases, but the disease is not exclusive to women. Understanding what is actually […]
Lung cancer screening in India and the AI tools changing it
Lung cancer kills more people globally than any other cancer, accounting for 1.8 million deaths each year. In India, the situation is particularly grim. The country recorded 81,742 new lung cancer cases in 2022 and 75,031 deaths in the same year. The survival rate sits at approximately 5%, compared to roughly 20% in Western nations. […]
Impact of lifestyle on health
The World Health Organization estimates that 60% of the factors tied to individual health and quality of life are connected to lifestyle. That is not a small number. It places the weight of health outcomes squarely on the patterns people build and repeat across years, from what they eat to how they sleep to how […]
Unlocking weight loss maintenance with 8,500 steps
8,500 steps makes losing weight easier. Losing weight on its own is difficult . Keeping it off turns out to be harder. Research consistently shows that more than half of people who successfully lose weight regain it within two years. Within five years, up to 80% are back to where they started. Those numbers have […]
Understanding nutrition in the Black community
Black Americans are diagnosed with hypertension at higher rates than any other racial group in the United States. Type 2 diabetes follows a similar pattern. These are not random outcomes. They are shaped by decades of unequal access to healthcare, economic inequality, and food environments that have historically offered fewer nutritious options in predominantly Black […]
The impact of sleep on aging is not what you expect
Most people understand that skimping on sleep is bad for them. What the latest research makes clear is that sleeping too much carries its own set of risks. A large-scale study published in the journal Nature analyzed the sleep patterns of approximately 500,000 individuals and found that both ends of the spectrum, too little and […]
A diverse healthcare team can save Black mothers’ lives
Black women in the United States face a maternal mortality rate approximately three times higher than that of white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That number has persisted across income levels, education levels, and geography. One of the most concrete responses to it, at the individual level, is the doula. […]