Another challenge that researchers for female reproductive-system cancers face is that patients are often young (sometimes only in their 20s or 30s), and researchers are extremely reluctant to run trials on women of childbearing age for both liability and ethical reasons.

That's why women's health lags far behind men's health in so many areas, from cancer to heart disease. I understand there are ways around that problem these days, but women's healthcare has decades of catching up to do. If you sometimes hear it mentioned more often online or in the news, that's why.