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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Lee Rhodes, founder of Glassybaby. It has been edited for length and clarity.When my youngest child was born in 1991, my chest would cramp in the oddest way when I was nursing him. I was only 32 and had three children…
When the big day finally arrived, the day I could say I’d been in breast cancer remission for five years, I wasn’t as ecstatic as I thought I’d be.It turned out to be a regular Tuesday, and I had to take my kids to school and go to work. There…
AI progress is increasingly framed around automation and job displacement. But Google executive Yossi Matias thinks the technology will be most important as a tool for helping humans make scientific breakthroughs.As head of Google Research, he’s worked on many projects over a distinguished career, including Google Trends, autocomplete, and Duplex.…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kathy Lemoine, 58, who lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Her son, Andrew Reaster, died on August 9, 2025, from colon cancer. This story has been edited for length and clarity. Loading audio narration… My son Andrew lived life to the fullest every…
Pratik Desai’s childhood home in Roselle Park, New Jersey, is full of reminders of his mother, Smruti. After she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in her small intestine, he did what he could to keep her around a little longer.The 34-year-old startup founder used AI platforms NotebookLM and Claude…
Cancer screening can feel like a rite of passage as we get older: skin cancer checks in your late 30s, a mammogram at age 40, a colonoscopy at age 45. Loading audio narration… However, as young cancer cases have skyrocketed, the previous screening guidelines are becoming increasingly too late for…
Josh Vintner-Jackson first felt some discomfort in his lower left hip in March 2020. Loading audio narration… At the time, Vintner-Jackson, who is from the UK, was 29 and worked at a startup in Austin. He balanced his time between work, hanging out with friends, and his active hobbies. He…
At 45, Shambi Broome didn’t believe she had colon cancer symptoms. She assumed her occasional abdominal cramps could be explained by her past two C-sections and hysterectomy. Loading audio narration… “If I had any discomfort, I was like, ‘Oh, it’s probably scar tissue,'” Broome, now 49, told Business Insider. “If…
The patient was 22 years old and a recent college graduate, suffering from inexplicable stomach pain. Loading audio narration… She’d had the pain off and on for about a year and assumed it was stress-related. She finished her studies and spent a busy summer working at an animal shelter, preparing…
In the 1990s, colon cancer was considered a problem for older adults. Loading audio narration… That’s why it was a complete shock for Katie Couric when her husband, Jay Monahan, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 1997. He died nine months later after his 42nd birthday.Today, colon cancer…
