President Joe Biden has promoted the idea of a “cancer moonshot” since he was vice president in 2016. The vision is to reduce the death rate from cancer by at least 50% over the next 25 years and to improve the lives of people living with cancer. The key, as the president says, is early detection, but Americans missed more than 9 million cancer screening appointments during COVID-19. The team behind the “moonshot” effort — and its 250 related research projects — says it has produced some results

But the rate of new cases of some forms of cancer — including prostate, kidney, pancreatic and melanoma — is rising. The survival rates of most cancers, however, are mostly improving, in some cases by a lot. I will show you the National Cancer Institute’s data and explain the president’s vision for cutting cancer cases and increasing survival rates.

For decades, cancer experts have said that a key way to fight cancer is to help people to stop smoking and avoid tobacco products. New polling shows how out of favor tobacco has become. The CDC published a poll that said, “Overall, 62.3% of adults supported a policy prohibiting the sale of menthol cigarettes, and 57.3% supported a policy prohibiting the sale of all tobacco products. A majority of adults supported tobacco retail policies aimed at preventing initiation, promoting quitting, and reducing tobacco-related disparities. These findings can help inform federal, state, and local efforts to prohibit the sale of tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes.”

911 operators in skiing and snowmobiling communities say Apple Watches are making false calls that the wearers are in distress. Apple says it is working on the problem, which is connected to the watch’s ability to detect when a person is hurt in an accident, like a fall or a car wreck. But the watch can’t tell the difference between a skiing wipeout and a car crash.