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You need to come and discuss the ways you are at risk for cancer and the top ways you can prevent cancer. American Cancer Society States that 4/10 cancer cases today can be prevented . The Top Ways to Prevent Cancers come to Discuss: 1. Proper nutrition and Vitamin Therapy, this is sort of complex, takes a bit of work 2. Sunscreen 3. Exercise 4. Normalize Weight (preventing obesity goes a long way to eliminating uterine cancer) 5. Minimize Genetic Risks 6. Oral Contraceptives 7. (Chemo)prevention of Breast Cancer (Using Medication) 8. Stop Smoking (this is the single best way you can predict cancer. 9. Avoid HPV infection (get vaccinated young) and this will virtually eliminate cervical cancer in women and oral and throat cancers in men 10. Take oral contraceptives to eliminate ovarian cancer 11. Decrease alcohol intake Actually half of all cancers are in people with identifiable risk factors. It's a job for both you and your gyno to figure out if you have a risk f...

Smoking and lung cancer: since there may be a latency of between 18 and 30 years between initiation of smoking and onset of lung cancer, it's always been tough to correlate that one cigarette with any dire consequences. and face it, who with lung cancer do you have to discuss this with, basically, with a survival rate at 5 years of under 16%, not many are hanging around to say, "hey kid, don't do what I did".  Why so dismal, most experts will tell you it's because we diagnose the lung cancers in such advanced stages. The other explanation that I want to postulate is that smoking ruins one's immune system and that the cancer gets aggressive very fast once it forms in a smoker's body. Whatever the reason most early detection efforts have failed. Tests that don't improve life expectancy in the group they are used are not typically worth their expense. For lung cancer doing x rays every 6 months or checking for cancer cells in the sputum are two screening ...

Are you at risk for cancer? Some day you'll just search this file against your personal codes? Not quite ever I doubt, it's more complex than that. But here's a growing list of what we know about genetic cancer risk: http://www.genome.gov/17516564

When detected early, the prognosis for bladder cancer patients is excellent with the American Cancer Society stating that the early detection 5 year survival is 92%. Women are often diagnosed when the cancer is advanced and bladder cancer in women is more frequent and more deadly than cervical cancer. The symptoms can be deceiving and women can think they have cystitis or a urinary tract infection. Some individuals may have blood in their urine when they have bladder cancer, but the presence of blood may be intermittent and the amount of blood doesn’t correlate with the severity of the cancer. NMP22® BladderChek® is a simple, non-invasive test that provides a result in 30 minutes. Although bladder cancer has a high rate of recurrence, it is a very treatable disease. People at elevated risk for bladder cancer include smokers, menopausal women, individuals with chronic stones or urinary tract infections and those in certain high- risk occupations who have had chemical exposures. Women’...