Update archive

Nine new news pages: the pope's lung cancer surgery and eight viral claims checked

What the Vatican said about Pope Leo XIV's lung cancer surgery, and what we found when we looked up eight popular social posts about a frog bacterium, a kidney cancer vaccine, GLP-1 drugs, sunscreen, phones, power lines, estrogen and vaccines.

• check_circleEach page says what the post claims, what the sources show, what we could not open, and what to do.Read the pope storyarrow_forward

144 more Vietnamese and Chinese articles are back, rewritten from the current English

Another 144 Vietnamese and Chinese articles that we had paused while they were out of date are back. Each was retranslated from the current English and compared with its emergency numbers, fever limits and other figures.

• check_circleArticles on home care, late effects, recurrence questions, living wills and grief, medicines, and questions to ask about treatment.Languagesarrow_forward

144 more Vietnamese and Chinese articles are back, rewritten from the current English

Another 144 Vietnamese and Chinese articles that we had paused while they were out of date are back. Each was retranslated from the current English and compared with its emergency numbers, fever limits and other figures.

• check_circleArticles on food and eating safely, genetic counseling, grief, paying for care, home and travel during treatment, and everyday questions.Languagesarrow_forward

144 more Vietnamese and Chinese articles are back, rewritten from the current English

Another 144 Vietnamese and Chinese articles that we had paused while they were out of date are back. Each was retranslated from the current English and compared with its emergency numbers, fever limits and other figures.

• check_circleArticles on myths and fact checks, cancer medicines, eating and exercise during treatment, clinical trials, and workplace rights.Languagesarrow_forward

New: bowel cancer immunotherapy before surgery, no relapses at 33 months in a small UK trial

What the NEOPRISM-CRC trial reported for 32 people with one genetic type of stage 2 or 3 bowel cancer, what a small trial with no comparison group can and cannot show, and who it applies to.

• check_circleThe numbers, the researchers' words, the limits of the study, and a short note on immunotherapy side effects.Read itarrow_forward

144 more Vietnamese and Chinese articles are back, rewritten from the current English

Another 144 Vietnamese and Chinese articles that we had paused while they were out of date are back. Each was retranslated from the current English and compared with its emergency numbers, fever limits and other figures.

• check_circleArticles on cancer medicines, childhood cancer, clinical trials, care for people who face extra barriers, and everyday questions.Languagesarrow_forward

More Vietnamese and Chinese articles are back, rewritten from the current English

288 Vietnamese and Chinese articles that we had paused while they were out of date are back, retranslated from the current English and compared with its emergency numbers, fever limits and other figures.

• check_circlePages on caregiving, grief, hospice, medicines and everyday side effects, with the same call-right-away and 911 guidance as the English pages.Languagesarrow_forward

New: does zinc prevent esophageal cancer?

A new claim check looks at a post about zinc and esophageal cancer. The research behind it studied zinc deficiency in rats, not zinc supplements in people.

• check_circleWhat a 2012 rat study found about zinc, and what it does not show for people.Zinc and esophageal cancerarrow_forward

New: does a forest trip boost cancer-fighting immune cells?

A new claim check looks at a widely shared post about forest bathing and natural killer cells. The study behind it followed 12 men and measured immune-cell activity, not cancer.

• check_circleWhat a small Japanese study found about forest trips, and what it does not show about cancer.Forest bathing and immune cellsarrow_forward

New: Long COVID brain fog and serotonin, what the viral reel's study shows

A claim-check on an Instagram reel about Long COVID brain fog and serotonin: the 2023 study is real, its mouse results are early, and no treatment is proven. With a short note for readers who have brain fog during cancer treatment.

• check_circleWhat the study found, what NIH's RECOVER trial found, and what is still unproven.Read itarrow_forward

New: suspected plague case in Russia, what experts and the CDC say

A news explainer on the reported suspected pneumonic plague case in Russia: what was reported and what experts and the CDC say about the risk, with a short note for people in cancer treatment.

• check_circleWhat was reported, what plague is, and the everyday infection rules for people in treatment.Read itarrow_forward

Homepage: a clearer first screen and a closer look at what the site offers

The homepage now shows the 911 and urgent-care line, a link to Spanish and other languages, and a new "What you'll find here" band with real counts of our articles, answered questions, report words, printables, Spanish articles and support services. Twelve cancer types are easier to tap, small text is larger, and the short videos use the brand purple.

• check_circleNew "What you'll find here" band on the homepage.Go to the homepagearrow_forward

New: HHS's mold roundtable, what was announced and what CDC and EPA say

A news explainer on the September 18 HHS mold and fungal disease roundtable: the funding announced, what different speakers said, and what CDC and EPA say the evidence shows, with a note for people in cancer treatment.

• check_circleWhat HHS announced about mold and fungal illness, who said what, and where the evidence stands.Read itarrow_forward

Where in the World? now has bigger photos and music you can hear

The photo game now shows each picture much larger, with an Enlarge button for a full-screen look, and the start screen opens with a row of big photos. The background music and sound effects were far too quiet on most phones and laptops, so they are now clearly audible, and you can still turn them off or adjust them in Comfort settings.

• check_circlePhotos are larger on every screen, with an Enlarge button to see one full-screen.Play Where in the World?arrow_forward
• check_circleMusic and sounds are louder and easier to hear on phone and laptop speakers.Comfort settingsarrow_forward

New: which cancers kill the most people, a cancer awareness calendar, and the top 10 causes of death

Four new news explainers use the latest American Cancer Society and CDC numbers to answer common questions about cancer deaths and prevention.

• check_circleWhich cancer is the most deadly: why lung cancer causes the most deaths and pancreatic cancer is among the hardest to survive.Which cancer is the most deadlyarrow_forward
• check_circleWhich cancer kills the most people in the US: the 2026 American Cancer Society projections by cancer type.Cancer deaths in the US, 2026arrow_forward
• check_circleA month-by-month guide to cancer awareness months, with what October and November highlight.Cancer awareness monthsarrow_forward
• check_circleThe 10 leading causes of death in the US in 2024, with the prevention steps the CDC recommends.Leading causes of death and preventionarrow_forward

Two new news explainers: injectable nivolumab and detox baths

Two headlines readers keep asking about, explained from FDA, NHS England, NCI and NIH sources.

• check_circleWhat the "5-minute cancer jab" is: an under-the-skin form of the immunotherapy nivolumab, what FDA approved, what the trial showed, and what it does not mean.Injectable nivolumab explainedarrow_forward
• check_circleA claim-check on weekly "detox baths" with clay and Epsom salt: what the evidence says and what to ask your care team first.Detox baths claim-checkarrow_forward

New: three viral claims checked (light at night, mouth bacteria, AI-made drugs)

Three new fact-checks look at claims from widely shared social posts: that light at night raises breast cancer risk, that mouth bacteria triple pancreatic cancer risk, and that an AI made a cancer drug in 30 days. Each explains what the study behind the claim actually found, what it cannot show, and what to ask your care team.

• check_circleDoes light at night raise breast cancer risk? One Georgia study found an association, not a cause.Light at nightarrow_forward
• check_circleWhat the 'mouth bacteria triple pancreatic cancer risk' headline really measured.Mouth bacteriaarrow_forward
• check_circleThe 'AI-made cancer drug in 30 days' claim: the paper reports an early lab result, not a treatment.AI-made drug claimarrow_forward

Accuracy: the last 250 articles re-checked, and a translate option on English pages

We finished re-checking our articles against NCI, CDC, FDA, MedlinePlus and other US federal sources. About 250 more pages were checked this week, mostly report-term explainers, scan and lab-result guides, and questions to ask your care team. Claims we could not confirm in those sources were removed or reworded. Readers who chose another language and land on an English page now see a link to read it in machine translation, with a reminder that the English page is the one we check.

• check_circleScan and lab explainers (BI-RADS, Gleason, CA-125, thyroid nodules and more) now say only what NCI and MedlinePlus support. Scoring tables we could not confirm were removed.Report termsarrow_forward
• check_circleMore pages now give a clear call-right-away or 911 line for warning signs.Fever during chemoarrow_forward
• check_circleEnglish pages show a translate link to readers who chose another language.Languagesarrow_forward

Accuracy: hundreds of articles re-checked against their sources

Over the past week we re-checked about 700 articles claim by claim against NCI, CDC, FDA, MedlinePlus and other US federal sources. Claims we could not confirm were removed or reworded, figures were corrected, and many "call your doctor" lines now say to call right away. Translations of changed pages show the English page until they are redone.

• check_circleSurvival and outlook pages now use the latest SEER figures.Survival and outlookarrow_forward
• check_circleFever and infection warning signs now point to right away or 911 on more pages.Fever during chemoarrow_forward
• check_circleUnconfirmed statistics, phone numbers and organization claims were removed.See what changedarrow_forward

New: one in eight cancers worldwide linked to infections

A news explainer on the new IARC study estimating that about 2.3 million cancer cases in 2024 were caused by infections, with what NCI says about HPV, hepatitis B and C, H. pylori and Epstein–Barr virus, and what the numbers do not mean for one person.

• check_circleOne in Eight Cancers Worldwide Linked to Infections, IARC Study Finds.Read itarrow_forward

New: what the American Cancer Society's 2021 staff vaccine policy said

A dated news explainer on the American Cancer Society's August 2021 requirement that staff be vaccinated against COVID-19, with what the release did and did not say.

• check_circleACS Required Staff to Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 in 2021: What the Policy Said.Read itarrow_forward

Clearer emergency steps on hundreds of symptom pages

We re-checked when to call 911, go to an emergency department, or call your care team right away, against CDC, MedlinePlus and NCI. Where a warning sign was listed as a same-day call but the source says right away, it now says right away.

• check_circleSigns of infection during chemotherapy, black or bloody stools, sudden confusion, a sudden severe headache and a wound that splits open now point to the faster step. Emergency lines now add "Do not drive yourself."Fever during chemo: what to knowarrow_forwardNeutropenic feverarrow_forward
• check_circleTranslations of pages whose safety wording changed show the current English page until they are redone.

New: Games, and a fast, friendly photo travel game

A new Games page and "Where in the World?", where you guess where a photo was taken and learn about the place. Fast and friendly, with a no-timer Relaxed mode, passport stamps, a daily challenge and no account.

• check_circleTen photos a game, four choices each. Music and sounds are soft and optional, and comfort settings are built in.Where in the World?arrow_forwardGamesarrow_forward
• check_circleNow easier on phones, with the photo and all four choices on one screen. After each photo you see a small world map, a few facts and the other places in the game from the same country. Your passport map and trip map show where you have been.Where in the World?arrow_forward
• check_circleNew optional Trips: five-photo mini-trips such as a week in Italy or a National Parks road trip, each with a passport stamp when you finish. The start screen is shorter on phones, the Start button is visible straight away, and the reveal facts are clearer for every place.Where in the World?arrow_forward

News: chlorthalidone blood pressure recall explained

A new news post explains the nationwide recall of chlorthalidone 25 mg tablets, using FDA records and MedlinePlus. It is not a cancer story. It covers what to check on your bottle and when to call.

• check_circleCheck the batch and expiration date, call your pharmacy, and do not stop a blood pressure medicine on your own.Chlorthalidone recall: what to check and doarrow_forward

Photo and travel games for memory and a sense of travel

A new plain-language article on how picture-and-place games may be a gentle, low-energy pastime during cancer care, and when memory or thinking changes should be raised with your care team.

• check_circleRead what these games may and may not do, with tips for tired days.Photo and travel gamesarrow_forward

A new logo and a free brand toolkit

The site now uses our new Cancer Explained logo and a new "ce" icon in the browser tab. Partners and press can download the logo, colors, fonts and a 10-page brand guide in one free kit.

• check_circleDownload the complete toolkit or read the brand guide.Brand toolkitarrow_forwardPress and mediaarrow_forward

10 social-media claim checks, source-checked and published

We checked every fact on 10 claim-check pages about posts on heavy metals, food additives, mold, skin cancer and unproven treatments against NCI, FDA, CDC, EPA and other sources. We fixed or removed the claims that did not hold up, and we now describe each post in our own words.

• check_circlePages on toothpaste, protein bars, jewelry and fast food testing now give the correct numbers and legal limits.Toothpaste and heavy metalsarrow_forwardGlyphosate in fast foodarrow_forward
• check_circleEach page ends with what the evidence says and when to talk to your care team.Basal cell carcinoma on darker skinarrow_forward

Clearer writing on about 400 guides

We finished an editing pass on guides about daily life, practical support, prevention, nutrition, healthy living, cancer-causing substances and cancer organizations. The pages are shorter and easier to scan. The medical facts, sources and warning signs did not change.

• check_circleGuides on daily life and practical support now open with who the page is for and use shorter sentences and step lists.Food insecurity during cancer treatmentarrow_forwardKeeping food safe during cancer treatmentarrow_forward
• check_circleWe fixed a broken link to the USDA National Hunger Hotline in four translated pages.Food insecurity during cancer treatmentarrow_forward

Reprint Memories: recreate a design from an old photo

Families can now ask us to recreate a lost design, such as a team shirt or a sign, from an old photo, in memory of someone affected by cancer. The design review and preview are free.

• check_circleSend a photo, mark the item, and tell us the words and colors as you remember them. A person checks every design, and you approve it before anything is made.Reprint Memoriesarrow_forward
• check_circleThe Reprint Memories page now shows old-and-new examples side by side, made with AI to show what to expect. You can also reach it at cancerexplained.org/reprint and cancerexplained.org/reprintmemories.See the examplesarrow_forward

Six new news explainers, checked against their sources

Viral posts and headlines about supplements, sunscreen, blood tests, acne products and milk, each explained in plain language with what the evidence does and does not show.

• check_circleVitamin D, Omega-3 and Home Exercise Lowered Cancer Risk in Adults 70+? Instagram Post Fact-Checked: a 2022 trial of vitamin D, omega-3 and exercise in adults 70 and older.Read itarrow_forward
• check_circleFDA Adds Bemotrizinol as a New Sunscreen Ingredient: What It Means: the FDA's new sunscreen ingredient, bemotrizinol.Read itarrow_forward
• check_circleFDA Advisers Back a Multi-Cancer Blood Test: What the Vote Does and Does Not Mean: the FDA advisers' vote on a multi-cancer blood test.Read itarrow_forward
• check_circleIs rBGH in US Milk Linked to Cancer? An Instagram Post Fact-Checked: the rBGH milk and cancer claim.Read itarrow_forward
• check_circleDoes Dawn Dish Soap Cause Cancer? An Instagram Claim, Checked: the viral dish soap and cancer post.Read itarrow_forward
• check_circle'7 Everyday Brands Sued Over Cancer Claims': What the Lawsuits Show: the viral list of everyday brands and cancer lawsuits.Read itarrow_forward

Fatigue and fever handouts are back in more languages

We re-translated the handout topics that had been switched to English, from the current English text, and checked every number and warning sign in each one.

• check_circle39 more Chinese pages are back, including fever during chemotherapy, low white blood cells, tumor lysis syndrome, breast, neck and testicular lumps, night sweats, vaginal discharge, kidney problems and the side-effects overview.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle45 more are back in Vietnamese and Chinese, including fever during chemotherapy, rectal bleeding, trouble swallowing, bone and jaw pain, tumor lysis syndrome, kidney problems and the side-effects overview.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle45 more are back, including the side-effects overview in 14 languages, fever during chemotherapy in Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Thai, bleeding after menopause, warning signs of cancer, and symptom pages in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle6 more Russian pages are back: sepsis, tumor lysis syndrome, severe diarrhea, sex after cancer surgery, when treatment for a common condition does not help, and the symptom I almost ignored.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle18 more are back, 12 in Russian and 6 in Thai, including neutropenic fever, peripheral neuropathy, pelvic floor recovery, radiation skin changes, rash, targeted therapy side effects, anemia and appetite loss.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle24 more are back, 22 in Arabic and 2 in Russian, including cancer emergencies, high calcium, tumor lysis syndrome, sepsis, superior vena cava syndrome, airway blockage and severe diarrhea.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle24 more Spanish pages are back, including neutropenic fever, sepsis, superior vena cava syndrome, airway blockage, low white blood cells, immunotherapy pneumonitis, coughing up blood, rectal bleeding, bleeding after menopause and breast lumps.En españolarrow_forward
• check_circle19 more are back in Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese: when a caregiver should call the care team, should I worry about a lump, unexplained fever, immune-related side effects, when a symptom keeps coming back, and headaches before a brain tumor diagnosis.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle21 urgent-symptom translations are back, including spinal cord compression, seizures, tumor lysis syndrome, high calcium, early-onset cancer and what to have ready for an urgent oncology call. Printable handouts in Amharic, Gujarati, Hausa, Marathi, Punjabi and Telugu now have their labels and sharing terms in that language.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circle26 more are back: the colonoscopy and nausea-and-vomiting guides in 13 languages each, with their printable handouts.Printable handoutsarrow_forward
• check_circle21 translated pages are back: cancer fatigue in 14 languages, fever during chemotherapy in Russian, Chinese, Thai and Spanish, neutropenic fever in Russian and Spanish, and chemotherapy in Spanish. Their printable handouts are back too.Printable handoutsarrow_forward

Out-of-date translations now send you to the current English page

When we correct an English article's numbers, warning signs or safety advice, older translations of it no longer stay up. You get the current English page until the translation is redone.

• check_circle422 translated pages whose English original has since changed a number, a threshold or an urgent instruction now open the up-to-date English page instead. Translations where only the wording changed stay up, with a note that the English was updated.Languagesarrow_forward
• check_circleWe rechecked eight support listings against the organizations' own websites, including the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and several financial-help programs. A listing whose recheck is due now says so even before the page finishes loading.Financial helparrow_forward

Free printable patient handouts, in English and 18 more languages

Short one-topic fact sheets you can download, print and share: what cancer is, chemotherapy, fatigue, fever during chemo, palliative care and more. Hospitals and clinics may print and hand them out freely, unchanged.

• check_circleEach handout is the text of one of our articles as a printable PDF, with its source, review date and web address. Translations cover every language each topic is published in.Printable handoutsarrow_forward

US emergency steps on 30 more pages, and updated translations

Some symptom and care pages still pointed to UK services like 999 and A&E. They now say 911, the emergency room, or your own doctor, based on CDC, MedlinePlus and ACS. We also carried this week's safety fixes into the Chinese, Vietnamese, Arabic, Thai and Russian versions of 21 pages.

• check_circleUS emergency routing on symptom pages.Testicular lumparrow_forwardSeizures and brain tumorsarrow_forwardRectal bleedingarrow_forwardNeck lumparrow_forwardTrouble swallowingarrow_forwardFrequent urinationarrow_forward
• check_circleClearer emergency steps during care.Spinal cord compressionarrow_forwardSeizures during cancer carearrow_forwardCentral lines and PICCsarrow_forward
• check_circleRoutine check-up advice now points to your own doctor, using US sources.Night sweatsarrow_forwardFeeling full quicklyarrow_forwardPersistent bloatingarrow_forward

Safety pass on 21 pages: clearer emergency steps and updated treatment facts

We rechecked 21 pages against CDC, NCI, FDA and MedlinePlus. Emergency signs now point to 911 or the ER, fever advice uses 100.4°F everywhere, and treatment lists include recent FDA approvals.

• check_circleWhen to get help: emergency signs now go to 911 or the ER, and UK-only phone routes are gone.Coughing up bloodarrow_forwardBlood in sputumarrow_forwardPostmenopausal bleedingarrow_forwardBleeding after sexarrow_forwardVision changesarrow_forwardPersistent cougharrow_forwardShortness of breatharrow_forwardUnexplained bruisingarrow_forward
• check_circleDuring treatment: fever is 100.4°F (38°C) throughout, and signs of infection or bleeding are routed sooner.Fever during chemotherapyarrow_forwardLow plateletsarrow_forwardImmunotherapy side effectsarrow_forwardFeeding-tube problemsarrow_forwardWalking plan after chemoarrow_forward
• check_circleTreatment facts: recent FDA approvals added, and drugs that are not approved removed.EGFR lung cancerarrow_forwarddMMR endometrial cancerarrow_forwardHRD-positive ovarian cancerarrow_forwardCMLarrow_forwardMetastatic pancreatic cancerarrow_forwardMetastatic uterine cancerarrow_forwardMetastatic lung cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleInterpreter rights: a regulatory date corrected.Interpreter rightsarrow_forward

Clearer emergency guidance, safety notices in 12 languages, and an easier site on phones

We re-read our guides about urgent symptoms and made the next step unmistakable, brought the same safety notice to translated pages, and fixed a round of small problems that made the site harder to use on a phone.

• check_circleAbout 70 English and 55 Spanish guides now say plainly when to call your care team right away, or 911 in an emergency. Signs like a fever during chemotherapy, trouble breathing at rest, coughing up blood or stroke symptoms had been listed under headings like "call the same day".Fever during chemotherapyarrow_forwardCancer emergenciesarrow_forward
• check_circlePages built from UK health sources now give the US emergency route (911) next to the UK one, and our grief and support pages now include the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Grief after losing someone to cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleAsk Cancer Explained now recognizes more of the ways people describe an emergency, and answers them with the call-911 and 988 message instead of search results.Ask Cancer Explainedarrow_forward
• check_circleTranslated guides about urgent symptoms, medicines and prognosis now show the same safety notice as the English page, in the reader's language. We also fixed emergency numbers that had run into the next word in Vietnamese, Russian and Arabic pages.All languagesarrow_forward
• check_circleThe Symptom Checker is now called the Symptom guide. It explains what body changes can mean. It never checked or diagnosed anyone, and the old name suggested it did.Symptom guidearrow_forward
• check_circleOn phones, guides now show an "On this page" list, long topic lists have an A–Z bar, the menu no longer lists every section twice, and the donation page puts the amounts on the first screen.Searcharrow_forwardDonatearrow_forward

Clearer warning sign on the chemotherapy page, and refreshed Arabic and Russian translations

A garbled sentence about nausea on the chemotherapy page now reads clearly, and dozens of Arabic and Russian pages were brought up to date with the current English.

• check_circleChemotherapy: the 'call within a day or two' list now plainly says to call if nausea means you cannot keep food down.Chemotherapyarrow_forward

Twelve lab and genetic-report decoders now in Spanish

Full Spanish versions of twelve report-terms pages on blood tests, tumor markers and genetic test results.

• check_circleTumor markers and PSA: AFP, beta-hCG, CA 15-3 and PSA doubling time.AFParrow_forwardBeta-hCGarrow_forwardCA 15-3arrow_forwardTiempo de duplicación del PSAarrow_forward
• check_circleBlood tests: absolute neutrophil count, creatinine, eGFR and bilirubin.Recuento absoluto de neutrófilosarrow_forwardCreatininaarrow_forwardTFGearrow_forwardBilirrubinaarrow_forward
• check_circleGenetic results: pathogenic, uncertain and likely benign variants, and a BRCA mutation found in a tumor.Variante patogénicaarrow_forwardVariante de significado inciertoarrow_forwardVariante probablemente benignaarrow_forwardMutación BRCA en el tumorarrow_forward

Twelve more report decoders in Spanish: DCIS, LCIS, CIN, LSIL/HSIL, Breslow, Bosniak and more

Spanish-speaking readers can now read full Spanish versions of twelve more pathology and scan report terms, from breast and cervical biopsy results to melanoma, prostate, kidney, thyroid and chest findings.

• check_circlePathology terms in Spanish: DCIS, LCIS, CIN 1-2-3, LSIL and HSIL, Breslow depth, and extraprostatic extension.DCISarrow_forwardLCISarrow_forwardCIN 1-2-3arrow_forwardLSIL / HSILarrow_forwardBreslow deptharrow_forwardExtraprostatic extensionarrow_forward
• check_circleScan terms in Spanish: Bosniak, PI-RADS 1 or 2, TI-RADS 3, hypoechoic, pleural effusion, and “clinical correlation recommended”.Bosniakarrow_forwardPI-RADS 1 or 2arrow_forwardTI-RADS 3arrow_forwardHypoechoicarrow_forwardPleural effusionarrow_forwardClinical correlationarrow_forward

New: a report highlighter, and a list of saved terms

Paste the text of a pathology, scan or lab report and see every term we explain highlighted, with a one-line summary and a link to its page. It runs in your browser, so your report text is not sent or saved.

• check_circleThe report highlighter recognises report scores as well as words, so BI-RADS 4A, PI-RADS 3 or Gleason 4+3=7 link to the page for that score.Report highlighterarrow_forward
• check_circleTap “Save term” on a found term or on any report-terms page to keep it in “My saved terms”. The list stays in this browser on this device.How saved terms are storedarrow_forward

Twelve new imaging-report decoders

Plain-language explainers for twelve words and phrases that often appear on scan reports, from ultrasound terms to mammogram, chest, brain and kidney findings.

• check_circleUltrasound and MRI words: hypoechoic, hyperechoic, anechoic and restricted diffusion.Hypoechoicarrow_forwardHyperechoicarrow_forwardAnechoicarrow_forwardRestricted diffusionarrow_forward
• check_circleMammogram, kidney, chest and brain findings: architectural distortion, asymmetry, Bosniak class, atelectasis, pleural effusion and mass effect.Architectural distortionarrow_forwardAsymmetryarrow_forwardBosniak classificationarrow_forwardAtelectasisarrow_forwardPleural effusionarrow_forwardMass effectarrow_forward
• check_circleReport wording that often worries people: nonspecific and clinical correlation recommended.Nonspecificarrow_forwardClinical correlationarrow_forward

Twelve new lab and genetic-report decoders

We added plain-language explainers for common kidney, liver and mineral blood tests, a urine test, blasts on a blood smear, and genetic report terms, each checked against National Cancer Institute, NIH and MedlinePlus sources.

• check_circleBlood and urine tests: creatinine, eGFR, bilirubin, uric acid, low magnesium, low sodium, protein in urine and blasts.Creatininearrow_forwardeGFRarrow_forwardBilirubinarrow_forwardUric acidarrow_forwardLow magnesiumarrow_forwardLow sodiumarrow_forwardProtein in urinearrow_forwardBlastsarrow_forward
• check_circleGenetic and genomic results: pathogenic variant, likely benign, ROS1 fusion and PSA doubling time.Pathogenic variantarrow_forwardLikely benignarrow_forwardROS1 fusionarrow_forwardPSA doubling timearrow_forward

Twelve new pathology report decoders

Plain-language explainers for more words you may see on a biopsy or pathology report, checked against National Cancer Institute sources.

• check_circleTumor grade and lab terms: moderately differentiated, undifferentiated or anaplastic, frozen section, and isolated tumor cells.Moderately differentiatedarrow_forwardUndifferentiatedarrow_forwardFrozen sectionarrow_forwardIsolated tumor cellsarrow_forward
• check_circleBreast biopsy terms: DCIS, LCIS and atypical ductal hyperplasia.DCISarrow_forwardLCISarrow_forwardADHarrow_forward
• check_circleCervical, esophagus and colon terms: CIN 1-3, LSIL and HSIL, Barrett esophagus with dysplasia, serrated polyps and villous adenomas.CIN 1, 2, 3arrow_forwardLSIL and HSILarrow_forwardBarrett with dysplasiaarrow_forwardSerrated polyparrow_forwardVillous adenomaarrow_forward

Eight new lab-result decoders: AFP, hCG, CA 15-3, thyroglobulin, calcitonin, chromogranin A, B2M and ANC

We added plain-language explainers for eight blood-test terms that often appear on cancer patients' lab results, each checked against National Cancer Institute and MedlinePlus sources.

• check_circleTumor markers: AFP, beta-hCG, CA 15-3 and CA 27.29, thyroglobulin, calcitonin and chromogranin A.AFParrow_forwardBeta-hCGarrow_forwardCA 15-3arrow_forwardThyroglobulinarrow_forwardCalcitoninarrow_forwardChromogranin Aarrow_forward
• check_circleBlood cancer and blood count results: beta-2 microglobulin and absolute neutrophil count (ANC).Beta-2 microglobulinarrow_forwardANCarrow_forward

Six new claim-checks on popular "natural" cancer cures

We checked six products often sold or shared online as cancer cures against National Cancer Institute, NIH and FDA sources: shark cartilage, mistletoe extract, colloidal silver, antineoplastons, CoQ10 and cannabis oil.

• check_circleEach page explains what studies in people found, the FDA status, known side effects or medicine interactions, and questions to bring to your care team.Shark cartilagearrow_forwardMistletoe extractarrow_forwardColloidal silverarrow_forwardAntineoplastonsarrow_forwardCoQ10arrow_forwardCannabis oilarrow_forward

Ten report decoders now in Spanish: BI-RADS, Gleason, PSA, PI-RADS, TI-RADS, CEA and CA-125

Spanish-speaking readers can now read full Spanish versions of ten of our report-term explainers, covering common mammogram, prostate, thyroid and tumor-marker results.

• check_circleMammogram and prostate results in Spanish: BI-RADS 2, 3 and 5, Gleason scores of 6 and 7, a rising PSA, and PI-RADS.BI-RADS 2arrow_forwardBI-RADS 3arrow_forwardBI-RADS 5arrow_forwardGleason 6arrow_forwardGleason 7arrow_forwardRising PSAarrow_forwardPI-RADSarrow_forward
• check_circleThyroid nodules and tumor markers in Spanish: TI-RADS, CEA and CA-125.TI-RADSarrow_forwardCEAarrow_forwardCA-125arrow_forward

Six new screening and prevention guides

We added plain-language guides on what a lung screening visit is like, home stool tests for colon cancer, screening after 75, the Surgeon General's alcohol and cancer advisory, and why there is no routine screening test for ovarian or pancreatic cancer.

• check_circleScreening visits and tests: what happens at a lung cancer screening appointment, and FIT vs. stool DNA tests for colon cancer.Lung screening appointmentarrow_forwardStool tests for colon cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleWhat the USPSTF says about screening after 75, and why it recommends against routine ovarian and pancreatic cancer screening for most people.Screening after 75arrow_forwardOvarian cancer screeningarrow_forwardPancreatic cancer screeningarrow_forward
• check_circleWhat the 2025 Surgeon General's advisory says about alcohol and cancer risk.Alcohol advisoryarrow_forward

Eight new claim checks and 16 true-or-false quiz questions

We checked eight viral cancer claims against federal health sources, from high-dose IV vitamin C to the idea that a cure is being hidden, and added short videos to our myth and screening pages.

• check_circleNew claim checks.IV vitamin Carrow_forwardBlack salvearrow_forwardCastor oil packsarrow_forward"Cancer is a fungus"arrow_forwardChemotherapyarrow_forward"Hidden cure"arrow_forwardBrasarrow_forwardGerson therapyarrow_forward

Ten new report decoders for melanoma, prostate, colon, thyroid and lung results

We added plain-language explanations of ten terms people find on their pathology and scan reports, from Breslow depth on a melanoma report to Lung-RADS on a lung screening CT.

• check_circleMelanoma report terms: Breslow depth, Clark level, ulceration, and in-transit or satellite metastases.Breslow deptharrow_forwardClark levelarrow_forwardUlcerationarrow_forwardIn-transit and satellite metastasesarrow_forward
• check_circleProstate and colon report terms: extraprostatic extension, seminal vesicle invasion, PI-RADS 1 or 2, and tumor deposits.Extraprostatic extensionarrow_forwardSeminal vesicle invasionarrow_forwardPI-RADS 1 or 2arrow_forwardTumor depositsarrow_forward
• check_circleScan scores: TI-RADS 3 on a thyroid ultrasound and Lung-RADS categories on a lung screening CT.TI-RADS 3arrow_forwardLung-RADSarrow_forward

Myth-busting guides, a donated picture book, and safer urgent-care steps

We added plain-language guides to spotting fake cancer cures and common myths, opened a new Donated Works section with a hand-drawn alphabet book shared by a family, and made the urgent-care steps on several side-effect pages clearer and more cautious.

• check_circleNew guides explain how to spot fake cancer cures online, what is and is not known about mRNA cancer vaccines, whether routine screenings cause cancer, how to question "wellness" protocols, and what new research on biological aging shows about cancer in younger adults.Fake cancer cures on TikTok and Instagramarrow_forwardmRNA cancer vaccinesarrow_forwardDo screenings cause cancer?arrow_forward
• check_circleDonated Works is a new home for drawings, books and stories that families share with us. The first is The Elephant Alphabet Book, written and illustrated by Olga, with a read-aloud video.Donated Worksarrow_forwardThe Elephant Alphabet Bookarrow_forward
• check_circlePages on sepsis, serious bleeding, managing several side effects, home infusion, medical devices at home and acute lymphoblastic leukemia now use one clear fever threshold, U.S. emergency numbers, and "call 911" wherever a step could not be confirmed. The Ask assistant also now treats bleeding that will not stop as an emergency.Sepsis during cancer treatmentarrow_forward

Clearer, simpler writing across well over a thousand pages

Our editors reread well over a thousand pages on symptoms, side effects, treatments, medicines, diagnosis, screening, test reports and cancer types. Each page now says up front who it is for, uses shorter sentences, explains medical words the first time they appear, and no longer repeats itself. We did not change any facts, numbers, sources or emergency instructions.

• check_circleEvery edited page was checked against its previous version so that no statistic, source link, quote or emergency step changed. Anything an editor could not confirm against a federal source is now on our medical review list instead of being guessed at.How we review contentarrow_forward
• check_circleFever pages now state the National Cancer Institute and CDC temperature thresholds side by side, without commentary.Fever and infection during treatmentarrow_forward

A cleaner, easier-to-read site, safer emergency steps, and thousands of fixed links

We redesigned the home page and top menu so the most useful starting points are easier to find, and made articles easier to read with larger text and fewer distractions. We moved emergency steps to the top where they belong, fixed thousands of broken links on translated pages, connected hundreds of articles that were hard to reach, and replaced photos that did not fit the page they were on.

• check_circleSafety: on our central line and PICC page, the steps for suspected air in the line now start with calling 911, and positioning follows the dispatcher’s instructions. The symptom checker now shows how to reach emergency help at all times, not only after a red-flag symptom is chosen.Central line and PICC troubleshootingarrow_forward
• check_circleClarified: wording on diet soda limits, breakthrough pain, vitamin D, and supplement claims so a safety limit or a study finding cannot be read as a recommendation. Dose figures now name their source beside the number.
• check_circleEasier to use: a simpler home page and top menu, larger article text, a reading progress bar, and extra material tucked into a single “More on this topic” section so the main explanation comes first.Homearrow_forward
• check_circleFixed: thousands of links on translated pages that led nowhere now go to the right page, and every translation is checked for broken links before publishing. Hundreds of articles that no other page linked to now appear as related reading.
• check_circleFixed: photos that did not match their page — for example, a photo of a woman on a prostate cancer page, or adults on childhood cancer pages. Pages about specific carcinogens now show public-domain photos of the substance itself, with credits.
• check_circleNew: a brand toolkit with our logos, colors, and guidance for press and partners.Brand toolkitarrow_forward

Accuracy pass: corrected survival figures in Chinese, and new report-decoder pages

An outside technical review prompted a full check of our translations against their English sources. We found five pages in Chinese where a number had been joined to the one beside it during translation — on one, a five-year disease-free survival figure of 67.8 percent was printed as 567.8 percent. All five are corrected against the National Cancer Institute sources they came from, and every translation is now checked automatically before publishing so a figure cannot change in translation again. We also clarified a fever instruction that could be read two ways, published new pages explaining specific Gleason scores, BI-RADS categories and the Nottingham grade, and fixed text running off the edge of the screen on phones.

• check_circleCorrected: five pages in Chinese stated a survival or side-effect percentage that had been garbled in translation. All five now match their National Cancer Institute source, and all 7,746 translated pages are now checked for this automatically.
• check_circleClarified: on our brain-fog page, a fever during chemotherapy is an emergency. It sat below a “within a day or two” instruction where it could be misread as something that can wait. It now comes first.Brain fog after treatmentarrow_forward
• check_circleNew: pages for what a specific result means — Gleason 6, 7 (including 3+4 versus 4+3), 8, 9 and 10; BI-RADS 1, 2 and 6, completing the set; and the Nottingham grade on a breast pathology report.Report termsarrow_forwardGleason 7arrow_forward
• check_circleFixed: on some pages, text ran off the side of the screen on a phone and was cut off mid-sentence.
• check_circleFixed: “Words to know” terms linked to the glossary even when the glossary had no entry for them, dropping readers at the top of a long page with no sign of the word they asked about.Glossaryarrow_forward
• check_circleCorrected: several photo descriptions — the text screen readers announce — described a different picture entirely. One was a quote card whose words were not being read aloud at all.
• check_circleNew: directories of US and international cancer organisations, with every listed website checked and eight dead or redirected links repaired.US organisationsarrow_forwardGlobal organisationsarrow_forward

Safety pass: fixed gaps in our emergency-symptom detector, plus a homepage myths section

We found and fixed gaps in Ask Cancer Explained's emergency detector — a decimal-Celsius fever reading, a Spanish fever phrasing, and chest tightness weren't being caught, so those now correctly trigger our urgent-care message, and we added permanent tests so they can't quietly break again. We also fixed Ask's and our on-site search's own basic questions sometimes leading with an unrelated result instead of the right one, corrected a factual gap in our privacy policy about analytics, added several security hardening fixes to our donation and contact forms, and fixed a handful of photos that didn't match their article or had a visible rendering flaw. On the front page, cancer myths and fact-checks — previously easy to miss — now has its own section.

• check_circleFixed: Ask Cancer Explained's emergency-symptom detector missed some real phrasings of fever and breathing trouble; now catches them, with permanent regression tests.
• check_circleFixed: Ask's own suggested questions, and common searches, sometimes led with an unrelated article instead of the right one.Ask Cancer Explainedarrow_forwardSearcharrow_forward
• check_circleNew: a homepage section for cancer myths and fact-checks, previously reachable only from a rotating slide.Cancer myths, checkedarrow_forward
• check_circleFixed: a handful of photos that didn't match their article's topic, plus two with a visible AI-rendering flaw, replaced.
• check_circleCorrected: a privacy-policy passage about analytics that didn't match how our Google Ad Grants reporting actually works.Privacy policyarrow_forward
• check_circleHardened: added rate limiting and other abuse protections to several of our forms and donation endpoints.

Accuracy pass: fixed translation errors across our non-English articles, and a readability sweep

We found and fixed a batch of translation errors in our non-English articles where numbers had been run together during machine translation — for example, a survival rate and a hazard ratio merged into one unreadable figure. Each fix was checked against the original English source before we changed anything, so no medical facts or statistics were altered, only restored to their correct, readable form. We also completed a readability pass across roughly 100 news articles that read harder than our grade-9 target, shortening sentences and simplifying wording without touching any medical facts, drug names, or citations.

• check_circleFixed: garbled numbers and broken links in translated articles across several languages, each corrected against the original English source.
• check_circleUpdated: roughly 100 news articles simplified to meet our grade-9 reading-level target, with no change to medical facts or sources.

New: an exercise and movement finder, plus a look at who we are as an organization

We launched an exercise & movement finder that lists gyms, parks, run and walking clubs, and cancer-survivorship fitness programs — including verified national organizations with their own location search tools — plus a way for readers to suggest a local listing for us to review before it's added. We also added a new article on why the gap between how long you live and how long you live in good health matters, added to our existing exercise & movement hub. Separately, we published a Careers & Volunteering page and expanded our funding-transparency page with the free and discounted technology tools we run on.

• check_circleNew: an exercise & movement finder listing gyms, parks, clubs, and cancer-survivorship fitness programs, with a form to suggest a local listing.Find a way to move near youarrow_forward
• check_circleNew: an article on why the gap between lifespan and healthy years matters, and where exercise fits in.Why the gap between morbidity and mortality mattersarrow_forward
• check_circleNew: a Careers & Volunteering page describing how we work and how to reach out.Careers & volunteeringarrow_forward
• check_circleUpdated: our funding-transparency page now discloses the free and discounted technology tools that support our work.Funding & independencearrow_forward

Safety and accuracy pass: clearer emergency wording, an HPV screening update, and a donation-privacy fix

We reviewed and rewrote dozens of "when to get help" sections across our treatment-side-effect articles so that genuine emergencies — most often a fever during chemotherapy — read clearly as "call now," not "call today." We also updated our HPV self-collection article: as of April 2026, FDA-cleared at-home HPV self-collection options now exist, alongside the 2024 in-clinic approval. Separately, we fixed a privacy issue where a donor's tribute name and an e-card's personal message could end up stored in a shareable link; both now travel more privately.

• check_circleUpdated dozens of articles so a fever during chemotherapy and similar genuine emergencies read as "call your team now," not "call today."What symptoms should I call my oncology team about today?arrow_forward
• check_circleUpdated: HPV self-collection can now happen at home in some cases, following an April 2026 FDA clearance, alongside the existing in-clinic option.HPV self-sampling and managing positive HPV resultsarrow_forward
• check_circleFixed: a donor's tribute name and an e-card's personal message no longer travel in a plainly readable, shareable web address.

New: an Education hub with free downloadable guides you can take offline

We launched /education, a hub that gathers our plain-language articles into six ready-made guides — one for each stage or topic people ask about most: just diagnosed, understanding treatment, cancer screening, prevention and risk, eating through treatment, and caregiving. Each guide reads on the site like a short book, chapter by chapter, and every guide can also be downloaded as a free PDF to print or keep on your phone for an appointment — no sign-up, no email required. We also added a healthy-eating and nutrition hub (cancerexplained.org/nutrition, also reachable at /food) organized around what's happening right now — nausea, mouth sores, taste changes — rather than by topic, so it's easier to find help for the specific problem you have today.

• check_circleNew: the Education hub at /education, with six downloadable guides — Just Diagnosed, Understanding Cancer Treatment, Cancer Screening, Cancer Prevention & Risk, Eating Through Treatment, and Caregiving — each a free PDF you can keep or print.Browse the Education hubarrow_forward
• check_circleNew: a healthy-eating and nutrition hub at /nutrition (also at /food), organized by what's happening right now — a side effect, treatment stage, or a claim you saw online — instead of by topic.Visit the nutrition hubarrow_forward
• check_circleNew: a resource guide pointing to vetted, professionally developed recipe collections for people in cancer treatment, since we don't publish untested recipes ourselves.Recipe and meal-idea resourcesarrow_forward

Fact-checks now show a quick-read verdict and cite the federal source behind it

Every claim-check article (our fact-checks on viral cancer and health claims) now shows a plain, color-coded verdict banner right under the headline — True, Mostly True, Misleading, False, or Unable to Verify — plus the specific federal or primary source the verdict is based on. Cancer Explained isn't the subject-matter expert on any of these claims; we now say plainly, on every fact-check, whose determination we're relaying (FDA, NCI, NIH/PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, or public law). All existing fact-checks were updated with this label and citation.

• check_circleNew: a quick-read fact-check badge at the top of every claim-check article, naming the federal or primary source behind the verdict, before a single paragraph of body text.
• check_circleA viral post claimed a HEPA air purifier improved cognitive function 12% in a month. We checked PubMed (NIH's own research index) and found a real, matching, peer-reviewed study — we could not independently confirm the exact 12% figure, so we rated the claim "mostly true" rather than fully confirmed.HEPA air purifier claim, fact-checkedarrow_forward

A second safety pass, and four new fact-checks on cancer claims making the rounds online

As part of our ongoing quality-assurance program, we completed a second scheduled editorial audit this month: reconciling a small number of pages whose visible "awaiting review" note hadn't yet been cleared after review was completed, and cleaning up a handful of formatting artifacts left by an earlier automated update. We also published four new fact-checks on cancer-related claims that have been circulating online recently.

• check_circleThree pages had a lingering "pending clinician review" note that hadn't been cleared after their review was completed. We removed them from search and public listing until that housekeeping step is finished, out of an abundance of caution.
• check_circleTwelve pages carried an outdated internal placeholder note (e.g., "not yet public") after already completing review. We updated the status on all twelve for consistency.
• check_circleAbout 40 news and article pages had blended two different federal statistics sources in their opening line — citing one organization's projected new cases alongside another's survival-rate figures as if they were the same measurement. We corrected the attribution on all of them.
• check_circleTwenty pages had a formatting artifact left behind by an earlier automated update. All twenty have been corrected.
• check_circleFour new fact-checks: a viral claim that a week of fasting makes your body "eat" cancer cells, a claim that ivermectin is a cancer treatment unavailable in the US, and two recent anti-aging claims involving metformin and public comments from Joe Rogan and David Sinclair. Each traces the claim back to what the actual research shows.Fasting and cancer cells, fact-checkedarrow_forwardIvermectin cancer claims, fact-checkedarrow_forwardRogan/Sinclair anti-aging claims, fact-checkedarrow_forwardMetformin, anti-aging, and cancerarrow_forward

A safety sweep: clearer emergency help in Spanish, one corrected page for kids, and a rule that the site explains rather than instructs

A routine content audit produced several improvements worth sharing. The emergency check behind Ask Cancer Explained now understands Spanish and covers more of what is actually urgent during treatment. A page written for children has been updated to align with our other pages' explanation of chemotherapy side effects. And we've added an automated check that keeps every page framed as explaining what is known, rather than issuing direct instructions.

• check_circleAsk Cancer Explained recognises an emergency written in Spanish and answers in Spanish. It also now recognises trouble breathing, bleeding that will not stop, stroke signs, and a fever during treatment — which can be a same-day emergency for someone on chemotherapy — rather than only the shorter English list it started with.Ask Cancer Explainedarrow_forward
• check_circleOur kids' page on cancer medicine described feeling tired or losing your hair as happening “because the medicine is working hard.” That's a common belief, but NCI is clear that side effects say nothing about whether treatment is working. The page now explains why side effects happen — chemo also reaches fast-growing healthy cells — and says plainly that doctors use scans and tests, not how you feel, to know how the cancer is doing.The Medicine That Fights Cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleSix pages have been reworded so that a clinician or a named source holds the verb: “you must avoid these foods before the test” is now what the laboratory instructs, and “you should get a written care plan” is now what NCI describes a care team providing. Every page on the site is now checked automatically for this before it can be published.How we review contentarrow_forward
• check_circleThe transparency page now says plainly who is accountable for this site and why we publish no individual names. Donors, grantmakers, journalists, and regulators who need officer or director names or governing documents can request them in writing.Transparency & Governancearrow_forward

Cancer in Books, a plain-language Essentials section, and a way to give from a donor-advised fund

Three additions. A new reading list explains what 50 cancer books actually contain and what none of them can tell you about your own case. A new Essentials section covers the most-searched cancers and risk factors in one short page each. And if your giving sits in a donor-advised fund, you can now recommend a grant on the donate page instead of emailing us.

• check_circleCancer in Books groups 50 titles by the job each one does — memoir, history, caregiver guide, cookbook — and 21 have their own page setting the book's contents against current federal guidance. A book is written once and read for decades, and these pages say where that shows.Cancer in Booksarrow_forward
• check_circleA new Essentials section answers the questions people most often arrive with, one short page each, on the common cancers and on the risk factors the evidence actually supports.Essentialsarrow_forward
• check_circleDonor-advised fund giving now works on the site. You can recommend a grant from your fund during checkout, alongside the card option. We say plainly that a DAF grant is not separately deductible to you and that your fund sponsor keeps the record.Donatearrow_forward
• check_circleFour news pages were added, including a fact-check of the half-million-dollar figure travelling with the personalised cancer vaccine story. The number is a bank's valuation model, not a price anyone has announced.Newsarrow_forward

Video, everywhere it helps — and a clean-up pass across the library

Forty-nine more short videos joined the library, and every one of our videos now has a single page where you can browse them all. Alongside that, a sweep of every published page fixed photo captions that were showing internal file names, repaired links that pointed nowhere, and corrected one symptom page that named the wrong temperature.

• check_circleForty-nine new one-minute videos cover the basics, screening, prevention, warning signs and the claims people most often search — all captioned, with no ads and no tracking.Watch all videosarrow_forward
• check_circleEvery video now lives on one browsable page, grouped by what you are trying to work out. Before this, you could only find one by landing on the right guide.Video libraryarrow_forwardUnderstanding reportsarrow_forward
• check_circlePhotographs across the library were showing internal catalogue names as their captions. Those are gone — a caption is now either real descriptive text or nothing at all.How we review contentarrow_forward
• check_circleRepaired links on more than fifty guides that pointed at pages which do not exist, so the next step in a guide now actually opens.Browse the libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleStandardized a symptom page that had cited a slightly different figure than the rest of the site. Every page now consistently says 100.4°F (38°C), and an automated check covers our video captions too.Fever during chemotherapyarrow_forward

Watch it explained: 30 short videos, captioned and checked

Cancer Explained now has video. Thirty short explainers — how to read a pathology report, staging and TNM, biopsy results, frightening scan language, and the most-asked myth checks — play right on the relevant pages: self-hosted, captioned, no ads, no tracking. Every narration script was compared with the site's sourced pages before rendering, the same source check our articles get.

• check_circleSeven walkthrough explainers cover whole reports — pathology, imaging, staging, grade vs. stage, margins, tumor markers — and appear on the matching guides and the reports hub.Understanding reportsarrow_forward
• check_circleTwenty-three quick answers, each about a minute: single report terms like invasive, in situ, Ki-67, HER2, Gleason and BI-RADS, plus everyday questions — does sugar feed cancer, does 5G, what actually causes it.Report decoderarrow_forward

44 new guides and research explainers, checked against federal sources

A survey of the topics people encounter in cancer news led to 44 new pages: 38 plain-language guides — from reading an eosinophil count to caregiving during radiation — and 6 explainers on recent FDA approvals and major trial results. Every page was written from NCI, FDA, CDC and NIH sources, then independently fact-checked against those sources before publication.

• check_circleNew everyday-question guides: bone scans, colon polyps found at colonoscopy, 2D vs 3D mammograms, lung cancer in people who never smoked, skin cancer in people of color, and more.Browse all articlesarrow_forward
• check_circleSix research explainers translate recent advances — the CHALLENGE exercise trial in colon cancer, the INTERLACE, CROWN, LAURA and NADINA trials, and the FDA approval of revumenib for acute leukemia — into what was actually shown, and what was not.Latest newsarrow_forward
• check_circleFour new claim checks weigh popular claims — fenbendazole, ivermectin, base tans, and chocolate — against what FDA and NCI actually say.Claim checksarrow_forward

Honest dates on every page, and clearer nonprofit facts up front

August's accuracy and safety passes changed thousands of pages, but the pages kept their older “last updated” dates. Every article now shows the date its content actually last changed, in English and Spanish. The homepage mission now states our IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) status plainly, and two practical tools that search engines could not find are now in our sitemap.

• check_circleMore than 3,100 articles now display the date they were truly last revised, reflecting this month's fever-threshold, medicine-safety and accuracy work — so “Last updated” means what it says.How we review contentarrow_forward
• check_circleThe homepage mission band now says plainly that Cancer Explained is a program of an IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity — the same facts our About and Transparency pages document.About usarrow_forwardNonprofit status & governancearrow_forward
• check_circleThe Symptom Diary and Next Steps Tracker are now listed in our sitemap, so search engines — and you — can find them.Symptom Diaryarrow_forwardNext Steps Trackerarrow_forward

One temperature, one rule: 100.4°F, on every page

Two trusted federal sources cite two slightly different fever thresholds for chemotherapy — CDC lists 100.4°F (38°C), while NCI prints 100.5°F beside the same Celsius figure. We standardized every page on this site to the more conservative CDC figure, added an automated check to keep it consistent going forward, and our medicine guides now draw a clean line between what you handle at home and what only your treatment team runs.

• check_circleEvery page that names a fever threshold during cancer treatment now says 100.4°F (38°C), matching CDC — in English, Spanish, and every other language we publish. Where a page quotes NCI’s printed 100.5°F, it now also shows the conversion and tells you to act on the lower number. A new automated check blocks any future page from teaching the higher one.Fever during chemotherapyarrow_forward
• check_circleMedicine guides now follow one rule. Amounts you handle at home — tablet strengths, missed-dose rules — stay on the page, tied to your own prescription label. Schedules only your treatment team runs — dose build-ups, infusion amounts, monitoring calendars — live where they belong: in your prescription, not on a web page that cannot know your kidneys, your liver, or your other medicines.Cancer medicines, explainedarrow_forward
• check_circleThe money-saving guide now says plainly what was always true: tips like splitting tablets or partial refills are for supportive medicines, never for the cancer drug itself — with a direct route to real financial help for the drug that actually costs the most.Saving money on cancer medicinesarrow_forward
• check_circleWe clarified emergency guidance so it's unambiguous: sudden, complete inability to urinate is treated as an emergency, distinct from lower urine output over a day, which is a different and less urgent concern.Warning signsarrow_forward

The melanoma vaccine result, explained in four parts, and a safety review of every translated page

This week's news writing takes two stories people are arriving confused about and explains what the findings actually support — including four pages on the melanoma trial alone, because most of the confusion is in the difference between what it measured and what people think it measured. Alongside them, our pages in eleven other languages were reviewed against their English versions so that the when-to-get-help guidance reads the same in every one.

• check_circleA phase 3 trial of a personalized mRNA therapy plus pembrolizumab reported that melanoma took longer to come back after surgery. The result is real, the numbers are not published yet, and overall survival is not mature — the article says all three.What the melanoma vaccine trial foundarrow_forward
• check_circleThree companion pieces go under that headline: what a therapy built from one person’s own tumor actually is, why “recurrence-free survival” is not the same as living longer, and what the result changes for someone who has already had melanoma removed — which, today, is nothing.What an individualized neoantigen therapy isarrow_forwardWhat recurrence-free survival measuresarrow_forwardWhat it means for patients nowarrow_forward
• check_circleA study linking daily sugary drinks to stomach cancer was widely reported as nearly tripling the risk. That is accurate, and the absolute risk stays small: 278 cancers among 112,284 people over 36 years.Sugary drinks and stomach cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleOur pages in Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Hindi, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese were reviewed against their English versions, so the guidance on when to get help now reads the same in all eleven — in that language, not in English.All languagesarrow_forward

An independent safety audit, and the source review completed

We commissioned an outside review of the medical safety of this library, worked through every finding it raised, and published our reasoning where we disagreed. In the same week the source-review programme finished its first pass: every page on this site was compared with the sources it cites. (Corrected September 2026: that pass was not a line-by-line record, and a queue of statements whose figures we could not find in the cited source is still being worked through.)

• check_circleEvery finding the audit raised was worked through and resolved. Where we disagreed with one, we recorded why, rather than changing a page to make a report come back clean.How we reviewarrow_forward
• check_circlePatient pages point you at your own prescription label rather than at prescriber-facing dose tables. Where a page names a dose you might actually handle at home, the number to follow is the one on your own box.How we reviewarrow_forward
• check_circleUrgent-symptom guidance was tightened across the library, and an automated check now blocks any future page that would place an emergency in a slower tier.Warning signsarrow_forward
• check_circleThe source-review programme is complete. All 2,656 remaining pages were reviewed, so every page here has been through a source check at least once.Our sourcesarrow_forward

Survival figures brought up to the newest data release

Survival statistics go out of date quietly — the number sits on the page long after it stops being the current one. Every page on the site that carries one has been refreshed against the latest release, and the sourcing behind each figure is now stated precisely.

• check_circleAll 289 pages carrying survival or stage-distribution figures now use the current data release.Understanding cancer statisticsarrow_forward
• check_circleWhere a page gives case or death counts for a calendar year, it now credits the American Cancer Society explicitly. Those are projections rather than measurements, and knowing which is which changes how much weight a number should carry.Understanding cancer statisticsarrow_forward
• check_circleA further 62 pages completed review and are now published.What we publisharrow_forward

A faster site, and a front door that asks where you are

Most people arrive here on a phone, often on a bad connection, often within a day of hearing news they did not want. The home page now starts with where you are rather than with what we have, and the pages themselves load faster.

• check_circleThe home page opens with a short set of routes — newly diagnosed, in treatment, caring for someone — instead of asking you to pick from a library.Homearrow_forward
• check_circlePages load noticeably faster on phones. We stopped preloading menus nobody had opened, dropped a compatibility bundle modern browsers do not need, and added a smaller image size for the phone screens that were downloading one too large.Homearrow_forward
• check_circleThe donate page was rebuilt: clearer about what a gift pays for, honest that we cannot price a single page, and it now mentions employer matching where you can see it.Donatearrow_forward

One clear standard for when a symptom cannot wait

Knowing whether something needs a phone call, a same-day appointment or an emergency room is one of the hardest things to judge from home. All 881 pages that tell a reader when to act now follow a single standard, matched to CDC and NCI wording, in English and in Spanish.

• check_circleA fever during chemotherapy is a medical emergency. Every chemotherapy-related page now says so in the CDC’s own words, with the temperature that counts and what to do at any hour of the day or night.Fever during chemotherapyarrow_forward
• check_circleOur highest-risk pages — emergencies, dosing, anything where acting on a single sentence matters most — were each re-read against the source they cite, and now sit on a shorter re-check cycle than the rest of the library.How we reviewarrow_forward
• check_circleGuidance was calibrated in both directions. Some situations now escalate faster; others no longer send you to an emergency room for something that can safely wait for the clinic. Being wrong either way has a cost, and we tuned for both.Warning signsarrow_forward

358 new plain-language guides on the questions people actually ask

We looked at what patients, survivors and caregivers ask each other in public online communities, then checked every one of those questions against what we already had. Most were already covered. The ones that were not became this release: how to read the words on a scan or lab report, what specific side effects feel like and what to do about them, honest answers to circulating claims about food, household products and workplaces, and the practical machinery of insurance appeals, leave from work and disability benefits. Every page is written from a named federal source, at a grade 7 to 8 reading level.

• check_circleReport and lab language, decoded one term at a time, so a result you read in a portal at 10pm makes sense before your next appointment.Tests and scansarrow_forward
• check_circleDay-to-day treatment questions, from port care and mouth sores to what to eat when nothing appeals.Side effectsarrow_forward
• check_circleStraight answers on claims that circulate online about food, household products, devices and workplace exposures, each one checked against NCI, FDA, CDC or EPA.Prevention and riskarrow_forward
• check_circleThe parts nobody explains: appealing a denial, external review, FMLA, ADA accommodations, SSDI and the Compassionate Allowances list.Living with cancerarrow_forward

When Advanced Prostate Cancer Starts Moving Again

Hunter Biden told the BBC that his father's prostate cancer had spread further into the bones and was painful. We added a page about what that phase actually involves: how progression is measured, what castration-resistant disease means, which treatments are approved once hormone therapy stops holding, and why reporting pain early makes the medicine work better.

• check_circleA new page on what it means when advanced prostate cancer progresses, with the emergency signs that need an emergency department the same night.Hunter Biden says his father's cancer has spread furtherarrow_forward
• check_circleThe original page on the 2025 diagnosis now carries an August 2026 update and links across to it.What Joe Biden's diagnosis can help us understandarrow_forward

A Plain-English Pass Over the Whole Library

No new section this time — a pass over what was already here. Hundreds of pages across the guides, the news archive and the answered questions were rewritten to read more plainly and to say something of their own rather than lean on a shared template. Claims were checked against named sources, and ones that could not be supported were corrected or cut. The counts on the home page are now links, and the body diagram has been redrawn.

• check_circleCancer information has a way of drifting into the language of a medical journal. Sentences were shortened, long clauses split, and terms explained where they appear rather than assumed — so a page works for someone reading on a phone in a waiting room. The medicine did not change. The reading did.What the library holdsarrow_forward
• check_circlePages that had been built from a shared outline were rewritten to fit their own subject, so each one reads as a page about its topic rather than a template filled in. Where two pages still carry the same sentence, it is because both need it — the note that no clinician has checked a page unless one is named, for instance.Where our information comes fromarrow_forward
• check_circleClaims were checked against named, checkable sources, and ones that could not be supported were corrected or cut; some attribution work remains open. Attributions were made precise, ageing statistics refreshed, a Medicare eligibility answer brought in line with the current rule, and dead citations replaced with working federal ones.News and analysisarrow_forward
• check_circleTwo new automated checks now run over the whole library before anything goes live. One scores how hard each page is to read and blocks any page that lands above a ninth-grade reading level. The other looks across guides, news and questions at once for pages built from the same template. Neither is advisory: a failing check stops the publish.Answered questionsarrow_forward
• check_circleThe body diagram you can use to find information by where a symptom is has been redrawn. It was a stick figure. It is now a proper body outline with the organs marked, and the keyboard highlight that had stopped appearing works again.Explore by part of the bodyarrow_forward
• check_circleSmaller thing you may notice: the eight counts on the home page — articles, quiz questions, answered questions, glossary terms and the rest — are now clickable, so each one takes you straight to what it counts.Glossaryarrow_forward

Survival Numbers, Blood Cancers, and Two New Trackers

About 112 new guides this sprint: survival and outlook pages for two dozen cancer types, blood cancer symptom and staging pages, and risk-factor pages rounding out the major cancers. Spanish grew by 110 real, human-checked translations and the last placeholder stubs are gone, the site now speaks Korean and Haitian Creole too, and there are two new tools for tracking your own care.

• check_circleThere was no survival or prognosis data anywhere on the site until now — one of the first things a newly diagnosed person searches for, and we had nothing. The new pages are careful about what the numbers mean and do not mean: a five-year relative survival rate describes a large group of people diagnosed years ago, not a prediction about you, and it is not the most current data available because treatments keep improving faster than the statistics can track.Lung cancer survival rates and what they really meanarrow_forwardProstate cancer survival rates and what they really meanarrow_forward
• check_circleBlood cancers stage differently from solid tumors, and that confuses people who go looking for the TNM system they have heard of elsewhere. CLL is staged with the Rai or Binet system, based on blood counts and a physical exam rather than imaging. Multiple myeloma uses the Revised International Staging System, built from a blood protein, albumin, an enzyme called LDH, and chromosome findings. New pages cover staging and symptoms across leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.CLL staging: the Rai and Binet systems explainedarrow_forwardMultiple myeloma staging: the R-ISS systemarrow_forwardLeukemia symptoms: what to watch for and when to get helparrow_forward
• check_circleRisk-factor pages now exist for every major cancer, including several that were missing entirely — lung, breast, melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, and more. They are careful to say the thing that gets lost in most risk-factor lists: having risk factors does not mean you will get cancer, not having any does not mean you will not, and no one caused their own cancer by having them.Lung cancer risk factors: smoking and beyondarrow_forwardBreast cancer risk factors: what raises and lowers riskarrow_forward
• check_circleSpanish stopped being mostly a facade. Roughly a thousand pages used to say, in effect, “not translated yet” and send you back to cancer.gov/español — those stubs are gone. In their place are 110 new full translations, written and checked in Spanish rather than run through once and left. The site also added Korean and Haitian Creole to its language list this sprint.Cancer Explained en españolarrow_forwardLanguagesarrow_forward
• check_circleTwo new tools for tracking what is happening to you over time, both private and kept on your device only. The symptom and side-effect diary logs severity over time, shows a simple trend for each one, watches for wording that sounds urgent as you type, and exports a clean summary for your next appointment. The next-steps tracker is a running list for after a diagnosis or a new result, so the follow-up scan nobody wrote down does not quietly fall through the cracks.Symptom & side effect diaryarrow_forwardNext steps trackerarrow_forward
• check_circleBehind the scenes, the site now keeps a record of what people search for and find nothing — not the words themselves unless they match the site's own vocabulary, just the pattern of a search that came up empty more than once. That list is becoming the actual queue for what to write next, instead of guessing.

Dogs, Cancer, and What the Evidence Actually Shows

Seven new guides on the questions people ask about dogs and cancer — whether dogs can smell it, whether therapy dogs help, what a service dog is allowed to do that a much-loved pet is not, and how to keep your own dog through treatment.

• check_circleDogs really can be trained to pick cancer samples out of a line-up in a laboratory. That is a real finding, and it is not the same as a test. Across 62 published studies, accuracy ranged from barely better than guessing to near-perfect, only six were run under conditions resembling real screening, and fewer than 200 dogs worldwide have been studied. No dog is an approved cancer test anywhere. The page says so plainly, because the risk with a story this charming is that somebody delays getting a lump checked.Can dogs smell cancer?arrow_forward
• check_circleThe largest trial of therapy dogs in childhood cancer found something nobody was looking for. Anxiety fell in the children who got dog visits — and fell just as much in the children who did not. What did change was the parents, whose stress dropped significantly. The visits appear to reach the people standing in the corridor that nobody is watching.Do therapy dogs actually help?arrow_forward
• check_circleService dogs, therapy dogs and emotional support animals are three different things in law, not three levels of the same thing, and the rules changed again this year. Airlines stopped having to carry emotional support animals in 2021. In May 2026 federal housing guidance moved to the same standard, so an untrained emotional support animal is no longer automatically accommodated in a rental. If you rent and rely on an animal, this one matters.Service dogs, therapy dogs and emotional support animalsarrow_forwardCan I bring my dog to treatment?arrow_forward
• check_circleTwo practical guides for keeping your own dog. Almost nobody needs to rehome one. The adjustments are small — someone else picks up waste, the dog stays away from a line or a wound — with one exception worth knowing: federal testing found salmonella in 7.7% and listeria in 16.3% of raw pet food samples, and that risk lands on you. The harder problem is usually logistics, so the second guide is about who walks the dog on your worst day and how to ask before you are desperate.Keeping your dog safely during treatmentarrow_forwardCaring for your dog while you are in treatmentarrow_forward
• check_circlePet dogs get cancers that closely resemble ours, and they get them naturally rather than in a laboratory. A National Cancer Institute programme and a network of twenty veterinary centres run trials in dogs whose owners enrol them, which can answer questions faster than a human trial can.How dogs with cancer help human researcharrow_forward
• check_circleThe site also gained new photographs this month for the parts of cancer that had none: palliative and hospice care, eating when nothing tastes right, and faith and chaplaincy. And the front page is now a much longer scroll, because almost everything the library holds was invisible from it.What the library holdsarrow_forward

Faith, Cancer, and What the Evidence Shows

Nineteen new guides and thirty-four short answers on the sacraments in hospital, what religious teaching actually says about treatment decisions at the end of life, and what the research on prayer does and does not show. Six are also in Spanish.

• check_circleThree beliefs cause most of the distress in this area, and all three are wrong. Anointing of the Sick is not only for the dying — the Catechism says it is fitting before a serious operation and may be repeated. Nobody is obliged to accept every treatment offered. And nobody is expected to refuse pain relief. The new pages quote the documents so you can check them yourself.Catholic faith and cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleThe hardest conversations get their own pages, with the texts in full: stopping treatment that is not helping, feeding tubes and IV fluids as death approaches, palliative sedation, assisted dying, fertility preservation before treatment, and what changes at a Catholic hospital.Stopping cancer treatmentarrow_forwardFeeding tubes and IV fluidsarrow_forward
• check_circleWe also looked at what the research actually found. Randomized trials of prayer for medical outcomes have not shown an effect, and no trial has tested cancer survival at all. Research on a person's own faith is a different question with different, more modest answers. We have kept the two apart, because collapsing them is how people end up being told their cancer progressed because they did not believe hard enough.Does prayer cure cancer?arrow_forward
• check_circleThree companion guides cover the same ground for other traditions and for none: Jewish teaching, where the Orthodox, Conservative and Reform movements genuinely disagree about the end of life; Islamic teaching, where most jurists hold that seeking treatment is permitted rather than required; and spiritual care for people who are not religious, where the research measure was deliberately written so an atheist can complete it.Jewish teaching and cancer carearrow_forwardIslamic teaching and cancer carearrow_forwardSpiritual care when you are not religiousarrow_forward

Remembering Technoblade, and a Sharper Library

A new piece about the Minecraft streamer Technoblade and the symptom he explained away, plus a round of work merging overlapping guides so every question has one clear, complete answer.

• check_circleTechnoblade was 23, had ten million subscribers, and thought the pain in his arm was from too much gaming. The swelling is what sent him to hospital. The page covers what sarcoma is, why some kinds are most common in young people, and how to tell an ache that needs looking at from one that does not.Remembering Technoblade and understanding sarcomaarrow_forward
• check_circleWhere several pages covered the same ground, we merged them into the single most complete guide — about 175 in this round — so a search brings you to the full answer instead of a partial one. If a page you had bookmarked now takes you somewhere else, that is why.
• check_circleYou can now see exactly where our information comes from. Our provenance page names the specific federal document behind each fact — the NCI page, the FDA label, the trial record — so you can open the original and read it yourself.Where our information comes fromarrow_forward

A Worksheet for Comparing Treatments

The last tool we had listed as coming soon is now built: a printable worksheet for holding treatment options side by side, with the questions that fill it in.

• check_circleTreatment options are usually explained one at a time, and by the time you get home you have half of one and a fragment of the other. The new worksheet gives each option a column and each thing worth knowing a row — including what happens if you wait, which is a real option people are rarely invited to weigh. It does not score or recommend anything, and you can print it blank and fill it in at the appointment.Treatment comparison worksheetarrow_forward

Two New Tools, and a Round of Claim Checks

A tool for appealing an insurance denial, a clinical trial search, and a set of pages checking claims that are circulating online right now.

• check_circleIf your insurer has said no, the new appeal builder walks you from the reason on your denial letter to a printable letter, with the deadlines that apply to your plan. Nothing you type leaves your browser.Insurance appeal builderarrow_forward
• check_circleYou can now search open cancer trials by condition and place, straight from the public ClinicalTrials.gov registry. It is a search, not an eligibility check — the trial team decides that.Clinical trial finderarrow_forward
• check_circleNew claim checks on things being shared widely right now: whether metformin treats or prevents cancer, whether it slows ageing, what the evidence for NMN and resveratrol actually is, and the viral video claiming frog bacteria cures cancer.Does metformin treat or prevent cancer?arrow_forwardDid scientists cure cancer with frog bacteria?arrow_forward
• check_circleNineteen Cancer on Screen pages are now published. We held each one until we could confirm exactly what the film names, and each now says so plainly — including where sources disagree, or where nothing is named at all.Cancer on Screenarrow_forward
• check_circleEvery guide and news page now has a way to send it to someone, with an opening line written for you so you do not have to find the words yourself.

A Clearer Home Page

Rebuilt the home page around the questions people actually arrive with, so the first screen points you somewhere useful instead of asking you to hunt.

• check_circleSeven starting points now sit at the top of the home page — from “I am worried about symptoms” to “I am living with or after cancer” — so you can go straight to the guidance that fits your situation.I am worried about symptomsarrow_forwardI was just diagnosedarrow_forwardI am caring for someonearrow_forward
• check_circleThe five-question Cancer Navigator, the six essential guides, and the practical tools are all reachable from the first screen, with clearer photos and reading times on every card.Start the Cancer Navigatorarrow_forwardAll toolsarrow_forward
• check_circleOne typeface across the whole site and a calmer, card-based layout make long pages easier to scan.What's newarrow_forward

Comprehensive Cancer Prevention Library, Possible Warning Signs System & Patient Care Guides

Launched a major evidence-based content expansion: 100 Cancer Risk Reduction topics across 8 categories, 100 Possible Cancer Warning Signs across 10 body areas, and 20 patient and caregiver navigation guides.

• check_circleLaunched the Cancer Risk-Reduction Library: 100 evidence-based guides covering tobacco cessation, alcohol intake, physical activity, nutrition, sun protection, cancer-preventing vaccines, screening, and environmental safety.Cancer Prevention Library Hubarrow_forwardTobacco & Smoke Risk Reductionarrow_forwardAlcohol & Cancer Riskarrow_forwardSun & UV Protection Guidearrow_forwardScreening & Family Historyarrow_forward
• check_circleLaunched the Possible Cancer Warning Signs & Body Changes Library: 100 plain-language symptom evaluation guides emphasizing benign non-cancerous causes, persistence criteria, and emergency warning signs.Possible Warning Signs Hubarrow_forwardThe Symptom I Almost Ignoredarrow_forwardSkin Changes & Mole Evaluationarrow_forwardBreast & Underarm Changesarrow_forwardLungs & Chest Symptom Guidearrow_forwardDigestive System Symptom Guidearrow_forward
• check_circleAdded 20 new high-priority plain-language guides covering what happens after diagnosis, treatment waiting periods, second opinions, chemo infusion day expectations, side effect timelines, emergency warning signs, caregiver toolkits, fear of recurrence, and communication guidance.What Happens After a Cancer Diagnosis?arrow_forwardWhat Happens Between Diagnosis and Treatment?arrow_forwardHow to Get a Second Opinionarrow_forwardWhen is a Side Effect an Emergency?arrow_forwardA Caregiver's First Weekarrow_forwardWhat Symptoms Should I Call My Team About?arrow_forwardA Symptom Is Not a Diagnosisarrow_forwardTreatment Week by Weekarrow_forwardScreening Anxiety Step-by-Steparrow_forwardDense Breast Tissue & Supplemental Screeningarrow_forwardEarly-Onset Cancer in Young Adultsarrow_forwardRadon Gas & Home Lung Cancer Safetyarrow_forwardAdult HPV Vaccination Guidearrow_forwardMulti-Cancer Blood Tests (MCED) Explainedarrow_forwardWaiting for Biopsy Resultsarrow_forwardWhat Happens After an Abnormal Screening Result?arrow_forwardQuestions to Ask Before Treatment Beginsarrow_forwardCoca-Cola's New Font & Beverage Marketingarrow_forwardRanch Dressing FIFA World Cup Trend & Nutritionarrow_forwardTop 100 Reddit-Informed Cancer Topics Collectionarrow_forward120 Expanded Cancer Topics Collectionarrow_forwardHealthcare Navigation & Communication Collectionarrow_forward100 Clinical Navigation & Disputed Risk Collectionarrow_forward200 Reddit-Inspired Cancer Stories Collectionarrow_forwardPathology & Biopsy Report Decoder Toolarrow_forwardOncology Appointment Question Generatorarrow_forwardFinancial Assistance & Copay Relief Locatorarrow_forwardMedicare & Cancer Help Centerarrow_forwardFor Healthcare Professionals & Community Navigatorsarrow_forward30 Priority Cancer Care & Equity Gap Guidesarrow_forwardTriple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Explainedarrow_forwardCan Cancer Always Be Prevented?arrow_forwardWhy Do Healthy People Still Develop Cancer?arrow_forwardSmoking, Vaping and Lung Cancer Riskarrow_forwardAlcohol and Cancer Riskarrow_forwardSun Exposure and Skin Cancer Preventionarrow_forwardHPV Vaccination and Cancer Preventionarrow_forwardHepatitis B Vaccination and Liver Cancer Preventionarrow_forwardFamily History and Genetic Testing for Cancerarrow_forwardWhy People Delay Cancer Screeningarrow_forwardDoes Sugar Feed Cancer?arrow_forwardCan Fasting Prevent or Treat Cancer?arrow_forwardCan Keto or Carnivore Diets Prevent Cancer?arrow_forwardCan Supplements Prevent Cancer?arrow_forwardCan Mushrooms Treat Cancer?arrow_forwardCan Antioxidants Interfere With Treatment?arrow_forwardDo Detoxes Remove Carcinogens?arrow_forwardDo Biopsies Spread Cancer?arrow_forwardIs Chemotherapy Worse Than Cancer?arrow_forwardAre Natural Cancer Therapies Safer?arrow_forwardHow to Recognize Cancer Misinformation Onlinearrow_forwardCancer Prevention Claims & Mythsarrow_forwardWhat to Say to Someone With Cancerarrow_forward

High-priority cancer emergencies, blood cancers, survivorship, genetics, and practical care

We completed two major gap-closing releases: 105 rare-cancer and practical-care guides, followed by a 113-page high-priority clinical set. Safety-sensitive emergency, metastatic-complication, device, and crisis drafts remain excluded from public search until qualified human review.

• check_circleAdded twelve source-checked public-figure cancer explainers covering Jeremy Clarkson, Vanessa Trump, Katie Thurston, Davina McCall, Beverley Callard, Brad Arnold, Sam Neill, Cliff Richard, Randy Moss, Raul Malo, Bruce Campbell, and Kevin Keegan. Each story preserves the limits of what was disclosed and connects readers with appropriate risk, symptoms, screening, diagnosis, treatment context, and questions for the care team.Jeremy Clarkson and prostate cancerarrow_forwardVanessa Trump and breast cancerarrow_forwardKatie Thurston and metastatic breast cancerarrow_forwardDavina McCall and a changing breast lumparrow_forwardBeverley Callard and early breast cancerarrow_forwardBrad Arnold and metastatic kidney cancerarrow_forwardSam Neill, lymphoma, and CAR-Tarrow_forwardCliff Richard and PSA screeningarrow_forwardRandy Moss and bile-duct cancerarrow_forwardRaul Malo, colon cancer, and leptomeningeal diseasearrow_forwardBruce Campbell's unspecified cancer disclosurearrow_forwardKevin Keegan's unspecified stage 4 cancerarrow_forward
• check_circlePublished a source-checked response to a viral claim that sunscreen chemicals cause cancer. The guide separates ingredient absorption from evidence of harm, explains limited benzene recalls, warns against untested homemade tallow or coconut-oil substitutes, and gives practical sun-protection and skin-warning-sign guidance.Does sunscreen cause cancer? Viral post fact-checkedarrow_forward
• check_circleExpanded every cancer news article with a shared, NCI-linked guide to prevention and risk reduction, possible warning signs, screening and early detection, and how cancer is diagnosed. Public-figure stories receive the same medical context, while donation invitations remain optional and use gentler honor-or-memory language on sensitive stories.Cancer in the Newsarrow_forwardTheo Von clip explainerarrow_forwardJoaquin Phoenix family storyarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a source-checked explainer for the viral Theo Von and Joaquin Phoenix cancer clip. It corrects the mistaken impression that Von announced a diagnosis, preserves the limits of what the speakers disclosed, and connects readers with practical NCI-based grief support.What the Theo Von cancer clip actually saysarrow_forwardWhat Joaquin Phoenix has said about his father's cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded three-part clusters for 14 previously shallow cancer types, plus rehabilitation, discharge, advanced-cancer, grief, cultural-care, access, and specific caregiver guides.Vaginal cancer guidearrow_forwardAdult bone cancer guidearrow_forwardCancer rehabilitation and OTarrow_forwardCancer care for refugeesarrow_forwardYoung-adult caregiversarrow_forward
• check_circleDeepened nine common blood-cancer clusters with focused pathology and molecular-result explainers, treatment comparisons, and daily-life guides covering infection planning, transfusions, monitoring, relapse, transplant, and cellular-therapy questions.AML molecular resultsarrow_forwardALL treatment optionsarrow_forwardLiving with CLLarrow_forwardDLBCL treatment optionsarrow_forwardLiving with multiple myelomaarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded pediatric and adolescent cancer, hereditary-risk, and organ-specific late-effect guides designed around real decisions rather than diagnosis labels alone.Hepatoblastoma parent guidearrow_forwardPediatric CNS tumor typesarrow_forwardVariant of uncertain significancearrow_forwardTumor vs inherited testingarrow_forwardHeart late effectsarrow_forwardHearing loss and tinnitusarrow_forward
• check_circleExpanded mental-health, care-coordination, and equity support, including trauma-informed care, transfers between centers, pending results after discharge, uninsured care, food insecurity, disaster planning, accessible instructions, and supported decision-making.Cancer-related post-traumatic stressarrow_forwardFinding oncology-informed mental health carearrow_forwardTransferring cancer centersarrow_forwardPending results after dischargearrow_forwardCancer care without insurancearrow_forwardSupported decision-makingarrow_forward
• check_circlePlaced 36 urgency-sensitive emergency, metastatic-complication, home-device, panic, suicide, substance-use, psychiatric-hospitalization, emergency-visit, and domestic-violence drafts behind human-review holds. They are not promoted or indexed until an appropriate qualified reviewer checks the exact wording.Volunteer to review contentarrow_forward

A major gap-closing content release for search, reports, treatment decisions, and practical help

This update expands shorter pages, adds focused report-code and treatment-regimen guides, fills more cancer-type follow-up gaps, adds practical access and caregiver pages, grows Spanish coverage, and adds original news formats built for Google Search, News, and Discover.

• check_circleStrengthened internal crawl paths from the homepage, global navigation, side-effects hub, report hub, professional hub, and outreach kit so priority safety pages, report terms, clinical-trial consent questions, Spanish resources, and partner handouts are reachable through visible links instead of only through sitemaps. We also packaged a new external-link sprint for libraries, cancer centers, navigators, nonprofits, support groups, and oncology practices.Priority starting pointsarrow_forwardSide effects hubarrow_forwardReport hubarrow_forwardFor professionalsarrow_forwardOutreach kitarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a Search Console crawl-priority sitemap for the most important pages while Google is holding many URLs as discovered but not indexed. It highlights core hubs, high-risk side-effect pages, report-term explainers, Spanish entry points, trust pages, practical support, and current original-analysis news, is listed in robots.txt for crawlers, uses low-cache crawler headers, and now ships as plain URL-only sitemap XML for the safest possible Search Console ingestion.Priority sitemaparrow_forwardSite overviewarrow_forwardWhat's Newarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded the next authority-and-relevance release: 36 new guides in healthy living, childhood cancer, nutrition, screening, clinical trials, and what-to-expect topics; 36 matching quizzes; 9 source-table news explainers in public health, research, and claim-check formats; a consent-based first-hand interview pipeline; a public outreach kit; and new navigator, library, Spanish, insurance appeal, clinical-trial, and reviewer-ready printables.Outreach kitarrow_forwardShare your experiencearrow_forwardWalking after chemotherapyarrow_forwardClinical trial consent questionsarrow_forwardAntiperspirant claim-checkarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded an authority and content-depth wave: 25 new underweight-cluster guides across healthy living, nutrition, childhood cancer, what-to-expect, and clinical trials; 25 Spanish companion pages; 25 quizzes; 5 original-analysis news formats; a 145-page high-risk medical-review queue; Spanish native-review packet; real patient-experience interview intake; and new printable visit, appeal, caregiver, side-effect, chemo, radiation, and Spanish handouts.Strength training during treatmentarrow_forwardClinical trial screening visitarrow_forwardFDA source tablearrow_forwardReviewer creditsarrow_forwardShare your experiencearrow_forward
• check_circleEvery news story is now filed under a clear category, and every guide carries structured information that helps search engines and screen readers understand it. We also added an automated check that reviews the live site after each update.Cancer in the Newsarrow_forwardWhat's Newarrow_forward
• check_circleExpanded Discover lead-image generation beyond news, claim-checks, symptoms, and report terms so side effects, diagnosis, after-treatment, treatment, cancer-type, and practical-support pages get richer visual coverage.Neutropenic feverarrow_forwardBrain tumor recurrencearrow_forwardSarcoma overviewarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded an automated publishing check that keeps every page and narration file clean before it reaches the site.Sarcoma overviewarrow_forwardNeutropenic feverarrow_forward
• check_circleVisual summaries on article and news pages now display in full, so every word on the card stays readable.Brain tumor recurrencearrow_forwardLeukemia survivorshiparrow_forwardAI cancer headline questionsarrow_forward
• check_circleIllustrations on cancer-type pages now display in full, at the size they were designed for.Endometrial cancerarrow_forwardWhat's Newarrow_forward
• check_circlePolished the Spanish mammogram and report guides so their titles and formatting read naturally.Spanish abnormal mammogram guidearrow_forwardSpanish Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a search-operations and trust release: real Search Console API ingestion scaffolding, clearer dashboard diagnostics, a 12-page high-risk side-effect review sprint, a full Spanish quality pass, expanded Discover lead visuals, zero remaining content-audit warnings, and fresh outreach/news-cadence assets.Neutropenic feverarrow_forwardSpanish Libraryarrow_forwardVolunteer reviewarrow_forward
• check_circleCompleted the Spanish coverage pass for every SEO-indexable English article, added hreflang Spanish article pairs, and finished the contextual related-link cleanup so public content has incoming paths. Public story pages now sit behind noindex story collections so they stay reachable without diluting the source-based medical library.Spanish Libraryarrow_forwardSpanish abnormal mammogram guidearrow_forwardWhat is cancerarrow_forwardPublic story collectionsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a second-wave gap release with rare-cancer overview anchors, per-cancer treatment questions, recurrence, advanced or metastatic disease, and survivorship follow-up pages for cervical, endometrial, uterine, liver, stomach, esophageal, thyroid, testicular, brain tumor, leukemia, myeloma, sarcoma, head and neck, gallbladder, anal, vulvar, penile, and eye cancer topics.Sarcoma overviewarrow_forwardEndometrial cancerarrow_forwardBrain tumor recurrencearrow_forwardLeukemia survivorshiparrow_forward
• check_circleAdded more long-tail report-code, side-effect, regimen, legal/practical, Spanish, and original-news content, plus a new reviewer outreach tracker and internal-linking wave for pages that had no contextual incoming links.ECOG performance statusarrow_forwardNeutropenic feverarrow_forwardFOLFIRINOX day by dayarrow_forwardAI cancer headline questionsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded focused explainers for report and result codes people see on imaging, pathology, and oncology reports, including Bethesda, TI-RADS, BI-RADS, PI-RADS, LI-RADS, Lugano, RECIST, MRD, and Grade Group.RECISTarrow_forwardMRDarrow_forwardBI-RADS 4arrow_forwardPI-RADS 4arrow_forward
• check_circleAdded practical regimen guides for common chemotherapy and maintenance plans, including FLOT, CAPOX/XELOX, FOLFOX versus FOLFIRI, AC-T, TC, carboplatin-taxol, R-CHOP, and maintenance therapy after ovarian cancer, myeloma, and lung cancer treatment.FLOT chemotherapyarrow_forwardCAPOX/XELOXarrow_forwardFOLFOX vs FOLFIRIarrow_forwardR-CHOP day by dayarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded more per-cancer completion pages for recurrence, metastatic disease, survivorship, and questions to ask, so major cancer-type paths have clearer next steps after diagnosis and after treatment.Breast cancer recurrencearrow_forwardMetastatic lung cancerarrow_forwardColorectal survivorshiparrow_forwardOvarian cancer questionsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded deeper practical, access, AYA, fertility, sexual-health, caregiver, and home-logistics guides, including copay cards, charity care, interpreter rights, undocumented care, pregnancy, fertility preservation, hospice timing, ports, PICC lines, ostomy care, and home health.Copay cardsarrow_forwardInterpreter rightsarrow_forwardPregnancy during cancerarrow_forwardHome healtharrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Spanish priority pages and new original news formats, plus Search Console import artifacts and more large Discover visuals so the content is easier to crawl, share, and keep improving from real search data.Spanish MRD guidearrow_forwardFDA approvals this weekarrow_forwardCancer headline translatedarrow_forwardWhat's Newarrow_forward

Sixty new search guides, quizzes, Spanish pages, and clearer site updates

A large new batch fills common search gaps: symptom questions, report-term explainers, newly diagnosed guides, treatment comparisons, practical support pages, matching quizzes, Spanish guides, and new visual assets for discovery.

• check_circleAdded 20 plain-language report and test-result explainers for terms people often see on pathology, biomarker, lab, and imaging reports, including PTEN loss, ESR1 mutation, TP53 mutation, BCR-ABL, FISH testing, flow cytometry, ascites, omental caking, lymphadenopathy, and HPV 16/18.PTEN lossarrow_forwardESR1 mutationarrow_forwardBCR-ABLarrow_forwardFlow cytometryarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded 15 more symptom explainers for long-tail questions people search when they are worried, including rectal bleeding, anemia, high calcium, high platelets, nosebleeds, stool-shape changes, vaginal discharge, vulvar itching, testicular pain, and balance loss.Rectal bleedingarrow_forwardAnemiaarrow_forwardVaginal dischargearrow_forwardBalance lossarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded 10 newly diagnosed guides for leukemia, lymphoma, and childhood cancers, with first-week questions and calmer next steps for AML, ALL, CLL, CML, DLBCL, follicular lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, retinoblastoma, and neuroblastoma.Newly diagnosed with AMLarrow_forwardNewly diagnosed with DLBCLarrow_forwardNewly diagnosed with retinoblastomaarrow_forwardNewly diagnosed with neuroblastomaarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded practical treatment-decision and access guides, including surgery versus radiation, chemo before versus after surgery, proton therapy versus standard radiation, SBRT versus surgery, CAR T-cell therapy versus transplant, prior authorization, FMLA, short-term disability, COBRA, and Medicare Advantage.Radiation vs. surgeryarrow_forwardProton vs. standard radiationarrow_forwardPrior authorizationarrow_forwardFMLAarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded 55 matching quizzes, five Spanish guides, and new large Discover images/narration files so the new content is easier to learn from, share, and find.Spanish HPV 16/18 guidearrow_forwardSpanish ESR1 guidearrow_forwardQuizzesarrow_forwardSpanish Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleChanged the workflow so the directory's mini changelog now uses the same source as this page, and added a validation check that reminds us to update What's New whenever newly dated public content is added.What's Newarrow_forwardDirectoryarrow_forward

Nine new current cancer news explainers

The News section now has full articles on this week's FDA approvals, pediatric brain tumor cell therapy, ADC research, cancer drug shortages, microbiome research, diet risk, comparative oncology, and cannabis-smoking risk.

• check_circleAdded a mid-July FDA oncology approvals roundup, plus a separate plain-language explainer on selpercatinib's traditional tumor-agnostic approval for RET fusion-positive solid tumors.FDA approvals rounduparrow_forwardSelpercatinib and RET fusionsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded treatment-research explainers on multi-antigen T-cell therapy for recurrent pediatric brain tumors and why TROP2 antibody-drug conjugates are getting attention.Pediatric brain tumor T cellsarrow_forwardTROP2 ADC researcharrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a patient-facing article on cancer drug shortages, including how to use ASCO and FDA shortage resources without turning a national update into a personal treatment decision.Cancer drug shortagesarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded research explainers on a gut-bacteria toxin mechanism in colorectal cancer and a 2026 review of ultra-processed foods and digestive cancer risk.Gut bacteria mechanismarrow_forwardUltra-processed foodsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded two careful headline-reading pieces: one on a tumor-prone gecko model for comparative oncology and one on heavy marijuana smoking and cancer-risk signals.Comparative oncology modelarrow_forwardHeavy marijuana smokingarrow_forward

New topic centers for prevention, research, insurance, pets, faith, and global data

A second wave of public pages turns the big expansion notes into findable, source-linked starting points without overwhelming the homepage.

• check_circleAdded a Welcome Center that works like a calm museum entrance: choose a starting point by diagnosis, caregiver role, age, body part, research interest, or practical support need.Welcome Centerarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Worldwide Cancer Statistics for global prevalence, mortality, treatment access, costs, barriers, and data-source caveats.Statisticsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Cancer and Insurance, including a careful answer to whether cancer can be separately insured and why supplemental policies are not a substitute for comprehensive health insurance.Insurancearrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Cancer in Pets, with dog and cat warning signs, veterinary oncology, quality-of-life planning, and comparative oncology context.Petsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Peer-Reviewed Cancer Studies for abstracts, research paths, study-type labels, and safer ways to read new findings.Research Studiesarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Prayer, Faith, and Cancer to separate spiritual coping support from unsupported promises about physical outcomes.Prayer and Cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded Prevention and Risk, Cancer Myths, Treatment Pathways, Lessons From Public Cancer Stories, and Translation Review pages, all linked from search, sitemap, and navigation.Preventionarrow_forwardMythsarrow_forwardTreatment Pathsarrow_forwardStoriesarrow_forwardTranslation Reviewarrow_forward

Clearer mobile navigation, a new research news explainer, and more transparency

A cleaner experience on phones and tablets, a new plain-language research news article, and clearer public pages about how Cancer Explained is funded, governed, and reviewed.

• check_circleImproved the phone and portrait-tablet navigation so the most helpful starting points are easier to reach without scrolling through a long horizontal menu.Start Herearrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a new cancer research news explainer about a mouse-imaging method that links whole-body tumor scans with cell-level detail, with careful context that the work is preclinical and not a patient scan.Read Articlearrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a new Why Cancer Explained page that explains where the site fits alongside trusted sources, why plain-language navigation matters, and what the site does not do.Why Cancer Explainedarrow_forward
• check_circleExpanded donation and transparency pages with clearer fund information, restricted-gift safeguards, source standards, AI quality checks, and content-governance notes.Donatearrow_forwardFundingarrow_forwardTransparencyarrow_forwardReview Policyarrow_forward
• check_circleClarified site routing: /news remains the cancer news section, while /new and /updates point to the What's New page for site updates.Newsarrow_forwardWhat's Newarrow_forward

Side effects by treatment, and 37 more guides en español

A new tool that shows which side effects come with which treatment, Spanish translations of our symptoms, treatments, and cancer-basics guides, and a much faster path from our writers to your screen.

• check_circleNew Side Effects by Treatment explorer: choose chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, surgery, or another treatment and see which side effects are common with it, what helps, and the warning signs that mean call your care team right away — each linked to a full plain-language guide.Explorerarrow_forwardSide Effectsarrow_forward
• check_circle37 new Spanish guides: every symptom guide (lumps, unexplained weight loss, night sweats, when to worry), all major treatment explainers (CAR T-cell therapy, brachytherapy, hormone therapy, stem cell transplants), and the cancer-basics library — 193 Spanish guides and counting.Spanish Libraryarrow_forwardSpanish Topicsarrow_forward
• check_circleTwo same-titled guides on children's clinical trials now have distinct titles so families can find the right one.Cancer Trial Pagesarrow_forward
• check_circleBehind the scenes: new guides now reach the site within about an hour of being written.Latest Updatesarrow_forward
• check_circleA friendlier menu: every item in the top navigation now has a small color-coded icon, each menu highlights one place to start — like the Diagnosis Navigator or the Support Finder — with a little hand-drawn illustration, and phones now get the same rich menu instead of a stripped-down list.Navigatorarrow_forwardSupport Finderarrow_forward

Medicine guides, the decoder en español, and cancer explained offline

Forty plain-language guides to major cancer medicines, a Spanish version of the report decoder, a side-effects survival hub, a 5-day email course, and the whole library as a free offline download.

• check_circleNew Medicines section: 40 plain-language guides to major cancer drugs — Keytruda, Herceptin, Tagrisso, tamoxifen, cisplatin, and more — what each one is, how it's given, common side effects, and questions to ask, all grounded in National Cancer Institute drug pages.Medicinesarrow_forward
• check_circleEl decodificador, en español: the report term decoder now explains all 151 report terms in Spanish — paste an English report, read the explanations in Spanish. As far as we know, the only tool of its kind.Decodificadorarrow_forward
• check_circleThe Side Effects hub now leads with the red flags that can't wait — fever during chemo, unstoppable vomiting — and connects eating help, emotional support, and medicine guides in one place.Side Effects Hubarrow_forward
• check_circleUnderstanding Your Diagnosis: a free 5-day email mini-course for the first weeks after a diagnosis — one short, plain-language email a day.Email Coursearrow_forward
• check_circleCancer Explained now works without the internet: download the whole library as a free Kiwix file for clinics, schools, and anywhere Wi-Fi doesn't reach.Offline Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleA printable waiting-room handout oncology offices can print freely — with a QR code straight to the site.For Professionalsarrow_forwardPrintablesarrow_forward
• check_circleBehind the scenes: a weekly checker now watches every source link we cite for rot, and reader feedback now guides which pages we improve first.Sourcesarrow_forwardCorrectionsarrow_forward

Decode your report, check the claims, and a faster site for everyone

A tool that explains the scary words on your pathology or lab report, 17 new fact-checks of circulating cancer claims, and big speed and accessibility improvements.

• check_circleNew Report Term Decoder: paste text from your pathology, lab, or imaging report and get plain-language explanations of 151 terms — everything runs in your browser, and your text never leaves your device. Every term also has its own shareable page.Report Decoderarrow_forwardReport Termsarrow_forward
• check_circle17 new fact-checks of cancer claims circulating right now — seed oils, GLP-1 drugs, 'turbo cancer', hair relaxers, microplastics, and more — bringing the claim-check library to 41.Claim Checkarrow_forwardNews Fact Checksarrow_forward
• check_circle50 more verified cancer news pages (drug approvals, landmark trials, milestones), each fact-checked against primary sources before publishing.Cancer Newsarrow_forward
• check_circleThe Support Finder grew to 100 verified-active listings — every one re-checked this month, with closed programs removed.Support Finderarrow_forward
• check_circle12 new Kids & Teens pages (ports, scan days, going back to school, pages for teens) and 18 new Spanish guides.Kids & Teensarrow_forwardSpanish Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleNew Exercise & Movement hub, and a volunteer pathway for nurses, clinicians, and students who want to review our content.Exercise Hubarrow_forwardReview Contentarrow_forward
• check_circleUnder the hood: the homepage loads six times lighter, fonts are self-hosted for speed and privacy, and an accessibility audit brought the site to zero violations.Homepagearrow_forwardAccessibilityarrow_forward

Cancer, explained for kids and teens

A brand-new section written to be read by children and teens themselves — gentle, honest, and free of sign-ups or tracking.

• check_circleNew Kids & Teens section with a Kids' Corner (ages 6–12), pages for children when a parent or sibling has cancer, and a straight-talking track For Teens.Kids & Teensarrow_forward
• check_circleEvery kids' page has a 'Read this to me' button, and the hardest question — 'Did I do something wrong?' — gets its own clear answer: no.Kids & Teensarrow_forward
• check_circleA kid-friendly word list explains tumor, chemo, port, and more, plus a printable 'My Hospital Bag' checklist kids can pack themselves.Word Listarrow_forwardHospital Bagarrow_forward
• check_circleReading level is checked automatically so the young-kids pages stay simple.Kids & Teensarrow_forward

A Clinical Trials Center, guided journeys, and more languages

A big set of learning tools shipped recently — plus natural-sounding read-aloud, more languages, and a fresh new look.

• check_circleNew Clinical Trials Education Center — how trials work, official search tools, a questions builder, FAQs, and pages for major cancers.Clinical Trialsarrow_forwardTrial Questionsarrow_forward
• check_circleNew guided journeys, a personalized start flow, a questions workspace, printable downloads, and a full site directory.Journeysarrow_forwardStart Flowarrow_forwardQuestionsarrow_forwardDownloadsarrow_forwardDirectoryarrow_forward
• check_circleNew 'Global Cancer Patterns' series exploring what places like Japan can teach us about prevention and screening.Global Patternsarrow_forward
• check_circleNatural-voice read-aloud on articles, more supportive sleep and comfort audio, and our language support grew to 105.Languagesarrow_forwardSleeparrow_forwardComfort Audioarrow_forward
• check_circleA refreshed 'Hopeful Health' look across the site — new logo, colors, and link previews.Homepagearrow_forward
• check_circleWeekly digest and RSS feed, share-ready link previews for every guide, and privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics.Weekly Digestarrow_forwardRSS Feedarrow_forward

Help writing a supportive message

It's hard to know what to say to someone with cancer. Now, when you send an e-card, we can help you find the words.

• check_circleAdded a Message Helper to our e-cards that suggests warm, respectful messages — which you can always edit to sound like you.Message Helperarrow_forward
• check_circleNew guide: How to Talk to Someone With Cancer — what to say, what to avoid, and what to text when you don't know what to say.Read Guidearrow_forward
• check_circleNew guide: How to Support Someone With Cancer — practical, caring ways to help.Read Guidearrow_forward
• check_circleNew coping guides: Coping While Waiting for Test Results, and Cancer Anxiety and Uncertainty.Waiting Guidearrow_forwardAnxiety Guidearrow_forward

A symptom checker and a much bigger Spanish library

New ways to find what you need, and far more of our library available in Spanish.

• check_circleNew Symptom Checker — pick what you're noticing to find plain-language information and guidance on when to see a doctor.Symptom Checkerarrow_forward
• check_circleOur Spanish library grew to more than 70 translated guides.Spanish Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleCompleted in-depth guides for every major cancer, each covering symptoms, types, stages, and treatment.Cancer Typesarrow_forward

Explore cancer by body part

A friendlier way to explore, and a clearer picture of just how much free information is here.

• check_circleNew interactive body map — choose a part of the body to see the cancers that can affect it.Body Maparrow_forward
• check_circleExpanded the Symptoms section with 14 warning-sign guides, from unexplained weight loss to when to see a doctor.Symptomsarrow_forward
• check_circleAdded a live counter on the homepage so you can see how much free, plain-language information is available.Homepagearrow_forward

Childhood cancer, and help with costs

New support for families facing a child's diagnosis, and clearer guidance on paying for care.

• check_circleNew Childhood Cancer section written for families — the common childhood cancers, family and school support, and survivorship.Childhood Cancerarrow_forward
• check_circleNew plain-language guides on Medicare and Medicaid for cancer care.Medicare Guidearrow_forwardMedicaid Guidearrow_forward
• check_circleDeeper guides for breast, colon, esophageal, and brain cancers.Cancer Typesarrow_forward

Understanding what causes cancer

A big new section on carcinogens and how safety warnings and rules actually work.

• check_circleAdded 100 plain-language guides on substances linked to cancer, and how agencies classify and regulate them.Carcinogensarrow_forward
• check_circleExplains hazard vs. risk, so headlines about 'cancer-causing' things are easier to make sense of.Hazard vs. Riskarrow_forward

Guided journeys, news, and more languages

Step-by-step starting points for the hardest moments, plus new ways to stay informed.

• check_circleNew hubs for people who were just diagnosed and for caregivers — one calm step at a time.Just Diagnosedarrow_forwardCaregivingarrow_forward
• check_circleWeekly cancer news, printable one-pagers for clinics and schools, and a growing Spanish library.Newsarrow_forwardPrintablesarrow_forwardSpanish Libraryarrow_forward
• check_circleReading tools like quizzes, flashcards, and a plain-language glossary.Quizzesarrow_forwardFlashcardsarrow_forwardGlossaryarrow_forward