So what's the new way to measure progress in blood cancer that Blood Cancer United recently introduced?

You know, when we talk about progress in cancer, we often talk about mortality rates, essentially the number of people that die from cancer each year.

And the great news is that for more than 35 years, the mortality rates in the United States have been going down.

And a big part of that success are prevention strategies.

For example, fewer people are smoking.

And early detection strategies, mammography, colonoscopy, pap smears.

The challenge is that while those strategies are very effective and have driven incredible reductions in mortality rates, They're not effective for all cancers.

So clearly there's been a lot of progress, but where are the biggest gaps and challenges still facing patients, researchers, and advocates?