Prevention- Inside Cancer Blog

Breast Cancer Screening: Age or Density?...

Posted by rios in Prevention on April 29, 2010 | No Comments

Next to skin cancer, the most prevalent form of cancer in women is breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS) the chance of developing breast cancer over a lifetime is less than 1 in 8. The most extensively used breast screening technique is an x-ray exam of the breast or mammogram....

Cell Phones: Where’s my earpiece?...

Posted by rios in Cancer, Prevention on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments

Cell phone usage has increased dramatically in recent years, with the number of subscribers exceeding 3 billion subscribers worldwide. Numerous case-control studies have examined the possible correlation between long term use of cell phones (specifically, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by cell...

Cancer-free mole rats may hold a key to ...

Posted by nash in Cancer, Prevention on January 11, 2010 | No Comments

I was always under the impression that sharks never got cancer. It turns out that isn’t true – they do get cancer, but less often than people. There is an animal that doesn’t get cancer though, and that is the naked mole rat. These cute little creatures live long lives underground, so I’m...

Six Tips on Avoiding Cancer...

Posted by nash in Archived Content, Cancer, Prevention on November 30, 2009 | 4 Comments

Most of us know that smoking cigarettes and excess exposure to the sun can increase the risk of getting cancer. In fact, much of cancer can be avoided by changing behavior. For examples of some causes of cancer, check out Inside Cancer. Some of the causes of cancer are less obvious. An example is maintaining...

Canines and cancer...

Posted by nash in Archived Content, Cancer, Prevention on October 21, 2009 | 4 Comments

For my blog, I thought I would talk a bit about dogs and cancer. Why, you might ask? I’m not a dog owner, but recently a few stories about dogs and cancer were brought to my attention and I thought they might be interesting to others. You may not know this, but dogs can actually smell some cancers....

Coffee and cancer – good or bad?...

Posted by nash in Archived Content, Cancer, Prevention on August 31, 2009 | 10 Comments

Welcome to my first post to the Inside Cancer Blog… I hope you enjoy. I’m a bit of a coffee drinker, so I often wonder if this is good or bad. Growing up, it was always presented as a vice. Yet, I have been drinking coffee all my life- and coffee has thousands of chemicals in it. Should I...