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. […]
What your doctor wants you to know about cancer prevention that rarely comes up in appointments
Cancer prevention is one of the most evidence-rich areas of medicine and one of the least effectively communicated in routine clinical care. The average appointment with a primary care provider leaves little room for the kind of extended conversation about lifestyle-based cancer risk reduction that the evidence genuinely warrants, and most people leave without understanding […]
Vaping beats traditional tools for quitting smoking but the full story is complicated
Vaping has become one of the most debated tools in public health, and for good reason. Millions of people around the world are trying to quit smoking, and the options available to them have never been more varied or more contested. Now a sweeping new review of global evidence has added significant weight to the […]