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Screening tends to identify more cancers at earlier stages, yet the fastest increases occurred among cancers that had already spread.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Asked about the contrast earlier this week, he said he didn’t have a theory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
In Hungary, the bodies of two World War Two German soldiers were recovered from the Danube River in Budapest earlier this month.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
AFP did not see many "students" when visiting earlier this month, but the size of the training room was a clear statement of intent.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
And because Duane had been curious about the same object on one of his earlier trips to the Shipwreck and had asked C.C. the very same question, he knew what the object was.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
