Advances over the past 3 decades in improvements in cancer prevention and screening strategies and more effective diagnostics and therapies in cancer care have led to unprecedented declines in death rates from all cancers, including prostate, gynecologic, and colorectal/anal cancers.

Initiating annual breast cancer screening at a younger age may prevent more than half of all breast cancer-related deaths among childhood cancer survivors treated with chest radiation, according to results of a comparative modeling study presented at this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting.

Survivors of childhood Hodgkin lymphoma are at an increased risk of developing an entirely new cancer later in life, according to new research published in Cancer—the American Cancer Society’s international peer-reviewed scientific journal—and conducted at University of Alabama at Birmingham.