Maintaining a Healthy Weight Can Reduce Your Cancer Risk

How much do daily habits like diet and exercise affect our risk for cancer? Much more than you might think. Increasingly, researchers agree that poor diets and sedentary lifestyles are among the most important contributors to cancer risk.   Approximately, 550,000 Americans die of cancer each year. About one-third of these deaths are linked to [...]

Cervical Cancer: How to Prevent and Detect It Early

January is National Cervical Cancer Screening Month. An estimated 11,270 women were diagnosed with invasive cervical cancer in 2009. Approximately, 4,070 women died from the disease. New cases and death rates have steadily declined over the past several decades due to prevention and early detection screenings.   The Pap test (also called a Pap smear) [...]