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Category: "Cancer Prevention"

Oct 01

Cancer Prevention Tips And Techniques For Everyone

Posted By: admin | Posted on: October 1, 2017 at 4:15 pm

Cancer Prevention Tips:

Cancer prevention tips in the first place, point to the necessary steps we need to take in our everyday lives to minimize the likelihood of developing cancer. According to the American Cancer Society estimation, more than 1.68 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the United States in 2016 and there will be 595,690 cancer deaths. In addition, American Association of Cancer Research has reported that more than half of these cancer deaths are attributable to a preventable cause. Obviously, these are tobacco smoking, overweight, UV-radiation exposure, missing vaccination against certain pathogenic infections, not showing up for cancer screening at the appropriate age or for high-risk individuals, the right time, lack of good diet and physical activities.

Risk Factors of Cancer Include-Exposure to toxic substance, unhealthy eating, over weight, smoking
Risk Factors That Cause Cancer

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Sep 30

Cancer Prevention Tests And Screening For Women And Men

Posted By: admin | Posted on: September 30, 2017 at 10:25 am
Cancer prevention Tests and Screenings
Cancer Prevention

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Cancer Prevention / Screening Tests

Cancer prevention tests aims to detect cancer before symptoms appear. This may involve blood tests, urine tests, other tests, or medical imaging. Screening is highly advised for people with a family history of cancer as they have higher risk of developing cancer. The benefits of screening include early detection and subsequent treatment thereby resulting in better outcome. Cancer Prevention tests must be effective, safe, well-tolerate with acceptably low rates of false positive and false negative results. If signs of cancer are detecte, more definitive and invasive follow-up tests are performe to reach a diagnosis. Read More

Sep 22

Cancer Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies

Posted By: admin | Posted on: September 22, 2016 at 10:25 am
Cancer Risk Factors - Chemicals, Smoking, Ionizing radiation, Being Overweight, Unhealthy Diet
Risk Factors That Increase The Chances Of Developing Cancer
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Doctors often cannot explain why one person develops cancer and another does not. But research shows that certain risk factors increase the chance that a person will develop cancer. These are the most common risk factors for cancer:

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