An annual report from the American Cancer Society shows that, for the first time, over 70% of Americans diagnosed with cancer can expect to live at least five years. The increase from the mid-1970s, when that number was just 49% is huge.

A mother-of-two with stage four bowel cancer is campaigning to stop emergency diagnoses after she was told she had the disease while she was on her own, with no family to support her. Sana Shaikh, 32, said it was "devastating" to receive her stage three bowel cancer diagnosis in an accident and emergency department.

January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. According to the CDC, about 13,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer in the United States every year.

In March 2025, veteran firefighter Ken Jones was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. His insurance company has since denied coverage for his life-saving treatment, as well as an appeal filed by his doctors.

What was once a metro Atlanta restaurateur's modest tribute to her late mother has become a multi-million-dollar philanthropy operation saving lives.

Shame can shape how early patients get diagnosed, and how aggressively they pursue treatment, if at all. In a 2014 study, Dr. Carter-Bawa found that lung cancer stigma was tied to patients waiting longer to seek care, regardless of smoking status or health care distrust.

“You have this clear marker that you’re sick,” McQueen explains. “People feel entitled to speak about your illness in a way that I’m not sure others with chronic illnesses that are less visible experience. Your humanity is replaced with this tragic figure. You kind of flatten from this multifaceted person to this 2D figure: cancer patient.”

Sheinelle Jones thought her late husband Uche Ojeh would beat brain cancer: 'Not once did I think I was going to lose him.'