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Preventing Skin Cancer : A must!!!

Avatar — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 04:52:18 +0000

In the United States alone, over a million cases of non-melanoma skin cancer are discovered and diagnosed each year. The most serious form of skin cancer would account for almost 60,000 cases in 2007 alone and from those, more than 8,000 will die as a result of the disease. Skin cancer is an ever-present problem for all due to ever-worsening environmental degradation which leads to more of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation getting through and causing damage to more and more unprotected people’s skin. As we all know, safety under the sun has been put on the spotlight by all governments and NGO’s in the hopes of lowering these statistics and keeping more people cancer free.
Simple steps as the proper use of sun protection if the form of sun block can greatly lower these statistics if only people adhered to the right use. Kids are some of the most active and prone to the disease and with their fragile bodies, they tend to suffer more from the disease due to their small fragile bodies. Adults feel impregnable to the sun which also leads to melanomas. So simple products like sun-protective clothing like caps and hats during hot days, sun block during leisure time and even on regular days can make all the difference in the fight against skin cancer.

Preventing Cancer : Easy as pie!

Avatar — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:40:25 +0000

Cancer is one of the most debilitating diseases on the planet to date. In its many forms that afflicts almost any part of the human body, it can be prevented with the help of intervention through medical means and simple changes to one’s lifestyle can work to your advantage if you know you are prone to get the disease. These prevention methods usually evolve around three major concepts which are; lifestyle/eating habit changes, cancer causing agent avoidance and last the intake of medicine to treat a precancerous condition in hopes of preventing the disease from starting. As we can see, the above conditions are quite easy with strict adherence and regular health evaluations they can be useful in the prevention of the disease.

Red Meat and Colorectal Cancer

Avatar — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:25:00 +0000

Recent studies are showing that consumption of too much red meat leads makes one more prone to colorectal cancer. Meat as we all know that comes from farms are loaded with growth hormones, antibiotics and vitamins that are used by farmers to increase the health and productivity of their livestock. Researchers are only beginning to investigate the links between these veterinary products and how residual chemicals in the meat of the animals we consume can have adverse effects on the human body. The study shows that consumption of more than 18 ounces of red meat per meal can raise the risks of contracting colorectal cancer in later life. An ounce and a half intake increase raises the risk by as much as 15% which means people should cut back on the red meat they consume and consider more vegetables and leaner cuts of meat.