What Your Yearly Mammogram Isn’t Telling You About Your Cancer Risk

Send us Fan Mail Do you attend your annual mammogram, Pap smear, or colonoscopy believing you are fully protected against cancer? You’re not alone—most women assume that completing their recommended screenings means they’ve covered all their bases. But here is the startling reality: standard guideline screenings detect only 14% of cancers in the US, leaving over 70% of cancer deaths to originate from unscreened, "silent" cancers like pancreatic, ovarian, esophageal, and liver cancers. I...