HOW TO PREVENT CANCERS

As is clear from a number of our recent posts, there's some long-brewing controversy in academic and public health circles about the potential benefits and risks of raising the recommended daily amounts of vitamin D.  One main camp believes that there is pretty solid evidence...

With spring in the air and the long sunny days of summer not too far off, the American Academy of Pediatrics has released a new policy statement on the hazards of UV radiation exposure in children and adolescents.  The statement, published in the journal Pediatrics (link), refreshes...

Despite all its good press of late, vitamin D's health benefits have been challenged recently, most notably in an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report at the tail end of 2010 and in a Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday (link).  That the two papers have similar conclusions - vitamin D has bone health benefits...

After toiling for a number of years as a companion piece to our popular Your Disease Risk website, our 8 Ways to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer is finally breaking out and into its own spotlight (link; PDF).  For the next ten months, the 8 Ways will be the cornerstone...

In a detailed review of evidence from 20 studies one of us, Kathleen Wolin, reports that higher levels of physical activity protect against colon cancer (see study) and now the precursor lesions, colon polyps (see study) . The evidence is consistent across study design, approaches to assessment of physical activity, and the populations studied. ...

The potential for folate to protect against colon cancer remains a question debated in the scientific literature. In part this is fed by short term studies of supplementation and the potential for an adverse effect in this setting where folate may promote the final development of colon cancer. 1 However, across a larger number of studies evidence is...

As a spin-off of our recent 7-Minute Abs post, I've spent part of the past week working on a journal article about the evidence and rationale behind our 8 Ways to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer (8 Ways link).  And one of the things that the process of reviewing the science and writing the paper reminded me of what just how straightforward the...

In this short update we draw attention to the strength of evidence that colon cancer is largely preventable with what we already know. While we have provided more extensive summaries of the overall evidence in the past 1, and have reported in detail on specific lifestyle habits and colon cancer 2,3, our goal here is to provide a quick update to help...