HOW TO PREVENT CANCERS

The media release from the Washington University School of Medicine, yesterday, on our review of the potential to prevent cancer and barriers slowing our progress in acting on what we already know. (For article link here)Colditz, Wolin, and Gehlert collaborate on a number of cancer...

As we complete April, colon cancer awareness month, the topic of strategies to improve our population risk profile and reduce the cancer burden in our families, our workplaces, our communities and our state, I am reminded of many times we have written and talked on this topic. We have written on physical activity and colon cancer prevention from many...

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A new rigorous analysis funded by the National Cancer Institute is published this month in the JNCI. Moolgavkar and colleagues (see report) now estimate that over 790,000 lung cancer deaths have been avoided by cessation from cigarette smoking since the 1964 Surgeon General's first Report on Smoking and Health was released. This represents...

Don't miss out.  Our award-winning website Your Disease Risk (yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu) will be a featured part of next week's NCI webinar: "Communication Science and Online Risk Assessment Tools."Launched in January 2000, Your Disease Risk has been a steady and trust-worthy...

Colorectal cancer kills over 50,000 Americans each year. Lung cancer is the only cancer that kills more people. Both men and women can get colorectal cancer, and it usually strikes those over the age of 50.The good news: Colorectal cancer is one of the most preventable cancers. No matter what your age, there is a lot you can do to lower your risk...