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Cancer
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Reminders raised lung screening follow-up from 47% to 76%; the education arm made it slightly worse
Annual lung cancer screening only works if people come back, and most do not. A trial of 1,837 patients tested two ways to fix that, and the two went in opposite directions.
Sep 7, 2026
B vitamins tracked slightly less breast cancer, but not in women drinking more than a glass a day
Folate and its relatives have been circling breast cancer research for decades without resolving. A nested study found small protective associations, and found they disappeared above a specific drinking threshold.
Sep 6, 2026
Left-side breast radiotherapy raised heart risk only in women who already had three risk factors
Radiotherapy to the left breast puts the heart in the field, and modern technique was supposed to have solved it. Across 23,305 women, the residual harm turned out to sit almost entirely in one group.
Sep 6, 2026
Saturated fat tracked 24% more deaths after prostate cancer, but not from the cancer
Most men diagnosed with early prostate cancer do not die of it. Following 4,884 of them for over a decade, what they ate afterwards moved every cause of death except the one they were treated for.
Sep 4, 2026