How to minimize your risk of skin cancer

How to minimize your risk of skin cancer

As the days get longer and the weather warmer that means one thing - more time spent outside in the sun.  Already many of us are venturing outdoors enjoying the warm spring days but there is one thing we must always do before we head outside – put on our sunscreen.  We’ve always known sunscreen use of SPF 30 or higher prevent sunburns but now researchers have proved it can also prevent melanoma, the most common form of cancer in the United States.

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Socioeconomic Status & Cancer

Socioeconomic Status & Cancer

What your parents did for a living, and where you lived, when you were born not only have an overall effect on your life, but could actually determine what specific types of cancer you will contract.

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Reduce your odds of a cancer diagnosis

Reduce your odds of a cancer diagnosis

A recent large study is strongly suggesting that one-quarter to one-third of all cancer cases including up to half of all cancer deaths could be prevented if we all practiced 4 lifestyle changes:

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The New Treatment for Skin Cancer

The New Treatment for Skin Cancer

Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches to silence "don't eat me" signaling proteins recognized by specialized cells of the immune system, University of California, Irvine molecular biologists and their colleagues have identified an effective way to combat metastatic melanoma.

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Lower risk of many cancers with more exercise

Lower risk of many cancers with more exercise

Exercise is well known for helping lower and protect our risk of many chronic conditions and now it looks definitive that the risk of cancer is one more disease to be added to this list.

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Physical activity lowers risk of 13 cancer types

Physical activity lowers risk of 13 cancer types

Once again, exercise continues to prove to be a valuable asset in keeping us healthy.   A study showed an association of leisure-time physical activity lowering the risks of 13 different types of cancer.  

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