The month of June has been designated to raise awareness about cancer, but this is a disease that requires your year-round attention. There are more than 200 types of cancer and risk factors are many: genetics, environmental exposures, lifestyle choices and different infections are all possible causes. According to the Continue Reading
Cancer
Numerous Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer could now Avoid Chemotherapy
Results from a long-awaited study, funded by the National Cancer Institute in the United States, released this week and published by the New England Journal of Medicine, have concluded that up to 70% of women who are diagnosed with ... Continue Reading
The Grave Danger of a Sedentary Lifestyle
You have likely heard the tagline: Sitting is the new smoking. But is sitting really an equivalent to smoking as far as the danger it poses to your health? Both are damaging but is it fair to say one has replaced the other?
A study based out of Columbia University Medical Center reports that people with desk ... Continue Reading
Interpreting Cancer Incidence Rates throughout the United States
In 2017, the American Cancer Society predicts that there will be nearly 1.7 million new cases of cancer in the United States. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US, causing 1 in 4 deaths. A study using information obtained by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recently named Kentucky as the U.S. state with ... Continue Reading
