Jonathan Gold, L.A. Times Restaurant Critic, has died

More cases are showing up because the largest population boom in human history, the baby boomers, are just hitting the retirement age. This type of cancer is highly correlated with the population size unlike other cancers which may be correlated by diet such as liver cancer, from drinking alcohol, or lung cancer, from smoking.

> I wonder why we're not doing more ...

Serious question: How much are we doing?

> other ways to detect this much earlier in the process

It is detected very easily, if you are lucky enough to have a checkup that coincides with the window of it being fairly benign

The unfortunate thing is that nobody knows how fast the cancer even grows. So even if you were paranoid and had checkups every 3 months for the rest of your life, you could still miss it before Stage IV.

For what you describe, this cancer would require something like nanomachines in the blood stream that detect and report the most minute composition changes.