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Cancer death rates are down. How can you help to reduce your risk of cancer and help prevent the occurrence of cancer in yourself, and in your family? See my recent Huffington Post article and think about how you can help your own healthcare http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cary-a-presant-md/cancer_b_4579448.html
We all know that smoking increases the risk of lung cancer. But recent evidence also shows that smoking increases the risk of colon and rectal cancer by 18 to 26% http://bit.ly/Vd8csw .
Importantly, the risk continued to be increased for up to 25 years after a person stopped smoking! In smokers, the risk of colon cancer was less if that person was not obese or if the person had above normal fruit intake.
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We are all told that after age 50 we should have a screening colonoscopy. This reduces the risk of death from colon cancer by finding and removing polyps that can cause cancer later. But the difficult preparation for having a colonoscopy prevents many people from agreeing to have periodic colonoscopies, and many older patients have a dangerously high risk from repeated colonoscopy examinations.
A recent article examined what options a person has and what are…
It is common to use aspirin to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. One baby aspirin a day is taken by millions of Americans to help to reduce or delay the occurrence of heart attacks. About 25% of Americans take daily aspirin (E. Jacobs and coauthors, J. National Cancer Institute August 10, 2012).