HOW TO PREVENT CANCERS

Amidst the current whirlwind controversy over screening mammography, we don't want to forget an important -- if often inaccurate -- article in the New York Times on cancer prevention that ran last Friday, November 13 on the front page (story).  The story downplayed the important role that lifestyle choices can have on lowering...

In the news last month were details of a large Harvard-based randomized clinical trial that will be testing the potential of vitamin D and fish oil supplements to prevent cancer and heart disease (study site). Called the VITAL study -- from the somewhat forced “VITamin D and OmegA-3...

Video featuring Graham Colditz, MD, DrPH on the keys to cancer prevention.Related web resources:Your Disease RiskCancer Prevention -- Google K...

A new study this week out of Stanford University found that the more acculturated Asian Americans are, the more likely they are to practice unhealthy patterns of sun exposure (study).Surveying close to 550 individuals of Asian decent living in northern California, the researchers found that those from families who have been in the US longer, or have...