Is there a world in which, given that mammograms miss up to one in eight cancers, mammograms are not the first step, and cancer detection enters the home?
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Alexa Mikhail,
Flow Space,
14 Jan. 2026
Some of the biggest improvements have happened in the more fatal cancers that are rising in women, like liver cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma, Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, chief patient officer at ACS, tells SELF.
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