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Q: Which types of cancer are hereditary?
A. “Fortunately, cancer itself is not hereditary, but the susceptibility to cancer is,’’ says Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...
The recent Annual Report to the Nation featuring colon cancer trends (http://bit.ly/ccF9ma) highlights the success of prevention in reducing colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed...
As we struggle to deliver 200% at work each day and come home and offer the same to our children and spouses, it can be easy to let the choices we talk about for cancer prevention -- cutting down on processed food, eating vegetables (i.e. doing...
(CBS)
Americans worried about the safety of their drinking water may have new cause for alarm.
A new study shows that tens of millions of us are drinking water contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a cancer-causing toxin that garnered national...
If you smoke, quitting the habit is the best New Year’s resolution you could make — and keep — in 2011. That’s true even if you’re just a social smoker.
A new report from the Surgeon General shows that even occasional smoking and secondhand smoke...
