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Cancer Statistics

Prevention magazine recently teamed up with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center to poll American women about cancer. They got some interesting results! More than fifty percent of women polled have a close friend or relative who has been diagnosed with cancer. That is a mixed blessing — it means there are a lot of people with cancer, but it also means that a lot of women are getting tested. 92% of women over forty are scheduling mammograms to detect breast cancer. 85% of women surveyed had a mammogram in the last two years. 94% of women polled … Continue reading →

Five Ways to Lower Your Cancer Risk

Here are some tips to help lower your risk of developing cancer — after all, prevention is the best medicine! Cut back on the couch time. And the desk time. And the beanbag chair time. You get the idea — get moving! Thirty minutes of moderate exercise most days of the week can keep your heart and body healthy. Exercise can also help cut your cancer risk! Lengthen and strengthen your workouts for better cancer protection. Aim for a forty-five to sixty minute workout five days per week to lower your risk of breast cancer by twenty percent. Workouts after … Continue reading →

Do You Know When To Get Screened?

You know what tests you need. Maybe it’s a mammogram and pap smear. Maybe it’s a colonoscopy. But do you know when you should start getting these tests in order to help protect yourself from cancer? According to the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), most Americans don’t know the appropriate age to start cancer screening tests. The National Cancer Institute developed HINTS to see how the general public accesses and uses information about cancer and has been studying screening habits since 2002. The bad news: Fifty-seven percent of American women did not know they should be getting mammograms starting … Continue reading →