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How a photo of a person’s face could help predict whether they’ll survive cancer treatment smacks of craniometry and phrenology and the historical disaster and harm to people that resulted from this pseudoscience.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 23, 2026 Source:How a photo of a person’s face could help predict whether they’ll survive cancer treatment Reference:Foundation artificial intelligence models for health recognition by use of face photographs (FAHR-Face): a model development and validation study
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Various hypotheses considered to try to answer question about increasing incidence rates (although low absolute increase) of various cancers in people under 50.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 15, 2026 Source:Why are more people under 50 getting cancer? Reference:Cancer remains predominantly a disease of older adults, but a World Cancer Research Fund analysis shows significant increases in several early-onset cancers (diagnosed before age 50) in England, the US and the Netherlands. In England (2001–2023 rates among under-50s): Liver…
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New approach to treating metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma for people who already had at least one systemic treatment, or who cannot take multi-drug chemotherapy.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for October 1, 2026 Source:This Pill Will Change Cancer Treatment Forever Reference:Daraxonrasib or Chemotherapy in Previously Treated Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer,
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The connection between the fallopian tube and ovarian cancer risk
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 28, 2026 Source:Many ovarian cancers may actually start somewhere else—and removing this body part can dramatically lower risk Reference: Why the fallopian tubes are the target What “opportunistic salpingectomy” means What the evidence shows Is it safe? Who this is recommended for A special note on high-risk women (BRCA gene…
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This Drug Wiped Out All Cancer Markers in 78% of High-Risk Patients With Smoldering Multiple Myeloma– Before They Even Got Cancer
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 22, 2026 Source:This Drug Wiped Out All Cancer Markers in 78% of High-Risk Patients – Before They Even Got Cancer Reference:Teclistamab versus lenalidomide-dexamethasone in high-risk smoldering multiple myeloma: a randomized phase 2 trial
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Weak evidence and lack of causality not mentioned in a headline that links milk consumption with an increased risk of prostate cancer
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 15, 2026 Source:Most men don’t know dairy is linked to prostate cancer risk Reference: A modest positive association between higher dairy/milk intake and prostate cancer risk is consistently observed in cohort studies, but the evidence is graded as “limited/suggestive” rather than causal, and the effect sizes are small. Pooled meta-analyses…
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Regular consumption of hot beverages (> 149F/65C is associated with an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for September 11, 2026 Source:Hot Beverages May Triple Your Risk of Developing a Certain Type of Cancer Reference:Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer: Prospective Analyses in Around 1 Million UK Adults The consumption of beverages at or above ~65°C (149°F) is linked to esophageal cancer, specifically esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), and this…
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Daily sugary drinks linked to 250 per cent higher stomach-cancer relative risk, but this translates into an absolute risk difference of 0.01 per cent because of the rarity of these cancers.
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for August 19, 2026 Source:Sugary drinks may increase risk of gastric cancer: study Reference:Association between sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverage intake and gastric cancer incidence
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An anti-cancer drug has been successfully repurposed to quiet a hyper-reactive immune system, giving hope to a kidney transplant who previously had none
Medical Mythbusting Commentary for July 31, 2026 Source:Medical breakthrough allows kidney transplant for patient with zero options Reference:T-Cell Engager–Mediated HLA Antibody Depletion before Kidney Transplantation.