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Colorectal Cancer Risk Factors, Prevention, and Symptoms — Sloan-Kettering

Early detection of precancerous polyps through colonoscopy is the best way to address colorectal cancer risk, say Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center specialists. People at higher than average risk because of a family history of colorectal cancer or a premalignant condition should get frequent screening. A healthy diet can also dramatically reduce risk. For more information, please visit [...]

Lung cancer attacks along sex lines, particularly attacking women

Twenty percent of women who are diagnosed with lung cancer have never smoked. This is not comforting news. Women also tend to develop more incidences of a specific type of lung cancer called adenocarcinoma. Unfortunately, even women who have quit smoking years before are more likely than men do develop lung cancer. The only good news is [...]

School buses expose school children to cancer risks

The image in the photo of diesel exhaust pouring out of the back of the big yellow school bus makes me want tocough and I am no where near the back of the bus. Imagine the children sitting inside the bus, where much of that busdiesel’s own exhaust is entering back inside the cabin from cracks in the [...]