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Your Cancer Answers: Why is cancer so complex?
How is Immunotherapy Used to Fight Cancer?
How does immunotherapy fight cancer? If you take the brakes off the immune system, you can unleash an attack on cancer cells. That's the theory behind PD-1/P...
6 Breast Cancer Risk Factors You CAN Control
Overweight and obese women -- defined as having a BMI (body mass index) over 25 -- have a higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer compared to women who maintain a healthy weight, especially after menopause. Being overweight also can increase the risk of the breast cancer coming back (recurrence) in women who have had the disease. This higher risk is because fat cells make…
Breast Cancer Myths and Facts
Only ten percent of breast cancer is hereditary. Which means ninety percent is not. Now, you can’t change your genes, but healthier lifestyle choices can mak...
Can Colon Cancer Be Prevented?
During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, it's important to look at risk factors for colon cancer and what you can do to reduce that risk. It starts with screening and includes healthy lifestyle changes.
Anti-inflammatory foods that prevent breast cancer
Experts suggest that the most effective way to lower cancer risk is by making healthy lifestyle changes. To boost your overall well-being, maintain a healthy weight and eat anti-inflammatory foods that can also help lower your risk of developing breast cancer.<br>According to Alexandra Rothwell, a r
How Cancer Affects Family Life
As any person with cancer knows, a cancer diagnosis also affects family members and friends. Sometimes, the complex feelings and lifestyle changes caused by cancer and its treatment become as overwhelming for others in your life as they are for you. Understanding the potential changes in the way you relate to specific family members and friends may help you take steps to grow healthy, mutually supportive relationships during this challenging time.
Winter Is Coming: How People with Cancer Can Prevent Slips and Falls
Learn why people with cancer are prone to falls and how to stay safe this winter.
How to interact with a patient
An Explanation of things that you should do, and avoid doing, when interacting with a friend or loved one after being diagnosed with cancer.
How Close Are We to a World Without Cancer?
Dr. Margaret Cuomo, host of the new PBS documentary "A World Without Cancer," discusses foods consumers should seek out and which activities people can do in order to avoid being struck by cancer. Photo: iStock
What Cancer Cannot Do Poem
A video of Cancer Care Services Clients, staff, volunteers and supporters pass along the message of what cancer cannot do.
How the Center for Lung Health helps patients
Our Center for Lung Health offers a multidisciplinary approach to diagnosing and treating cancers of the lung, chest and esophagus. Located in the Robert and...
Preventing Colon Cancer: What You Can Do
Dr. Tim Byers explains what you can do to be proactive about your health and about preventing colon cancer.
Why Support Breast Cancer Research?
Breast Cancer Campaign's mission is to beat breast cancer, the UK's most common cancer. Watch this video to find out why this cause is so important. Visit ww...
What does "Probably Cause Cancer" actually mean?
Grist asked: "Hey Risk Bites guy, the WHO just said that the herbicide in Roundup probably causes cancer -- what's the deal with that? It seems like every mo...
Study Says Breast Cancer Prevention Must Begin Early in Life
Every woman wants to know what she can do to lower her risk of breast cancer. Some of the factors associated with breast cancer -- being a woman, your age, and your genetics, for example -- can’t be changed. Other factors -- being overweight, lack of exercise, eating unhealthy food -- can be changed by making choices. By choosing the healthiest lifestyle options possible, you can empower yourself and make sure your breast cancer risk is as low as possible<br>A paper strongly…
6 Tips for Avoiding Infections This Winter
Infections are one of the most common—and potentially dangerous—complications of cancer. That’s because the disease, and some of the same treatments that help destroy cancer cells, can weaken the immune system, making you more vulnerable to serious infections.
Research Suggests Risk Continues to Increase as Weight Goes Up
Overweight and obese women -- defined as having a BMI (body mass index) higher than 25 -- have a higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer compared to women who maintain a healthy weight, especially after menopause. Being overweight also can increase the risk of breast cancer coming back (recurrence) in women who’ve been diagnosed with the disease<br>This higher risk is partially because fat…
What's in a Number? Detecting a Hidden Risk for Breast Cancer
Dense breast tissue can sometimes make very small cancers harder to detect. But Reading Hospital has a new tool to help. Dr. Margaret Bazarnic explains Volpara.
‘How cancer evolves within our bodies’
May 15, 2018 11:00 MST<br>James DeGregori is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Deputy Director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center. His lab studies the evolution of cancer, in the context of their Adaptive Oncogenesis model, with a focus on how aging and other insults influence cancer initiation. His lab…
8 Things You Need to Know About Breast Cancer
8 Things You Need to Know About Breast Cancer<br>Earlier this month I shared about Breast Cancer Awareness and learning about your month for getting a mammogram. I partnered with Saint Agnes Hospital to share valuable information about breast health and I even interviewed Dr. Diana Griffiths of Saint Agnes Hospital. Read what she had to share below about breast cancer and breast health<br>Saint Agnes Hospital Breast Cancer Team- Photo Credit: Saint Agnes Hospital<br>1. At what age do you recommend women…
