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14 Ways To Never Get Cancer and Love Your Breasts? Womens Breast Health Tips!

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First the good news, your cancer risks are very low if you have a healthy lifestyle. As many as 70% of known causes of cancers are avoidable and related to lifestyle. Your first line of defence, as expected, is avoidance of tobacco products but recent research has uncovered many small, surprising ways you can reduce your cancer risks.

14 Ways To Reduce Your Cancer Risks

Filter Your Tap Water – You’ll reduce your exposure to known or suspected carcinogens and hormone-disrupting chemicals. A new report from the President’s Cancer Panel on how to reduce your cancer risks suggests filtered tap water is a safer bet than bottled water. Read the rest of this post

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Jan 18, 2011

Pink Glove Dance – Breast Cancer Can Be Beaten

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Emily (MacInnes) Somers, created, directed and choreographed this in Portland last week for her Medline glove division as a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness.  Emily and her team members, including doctors and even some patients are all participating in a very fun way of both raising awareness and raising funding to fight Cancer.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw

Medline supports employee events like this and donates money to the National Breast Cancer foundation. Read the rest of this post

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Filed under WLS Surgery
Nov 27, 2009

10 Cancer Risks You Can Control

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Significantly reducing your risk of cancer is as simple as making the right everyday choices about diet, exercise and tobacco use, according to a Special Report on Cancer Prevention in the November issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.

More than 72,000 Canadians die annually from Cancer. Causes would be very similar to recent evidence  in the US which suggests that one-third of cancer related deaths there are related to diet, exercise and weight. Another one-third of annual US cancer deaths are related to tobacco exposure. The eight-page Special Report examines the science and latest findings on 10 approaches that can make a real difference in preventing cancer. Here are some highlights from the list: Read the rest of this post

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Filed under WLS Surgery
Nov 16, 2009

WLS Reduces Cancer Risk For Women

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Weight-loss surgery may help obese women lower their risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday.

They found women who had weight-loss surgery were 42 percent less likely to develop cancer during a 10-year study published in the journal Lancet Oncology.

Men in the study did not benefit, possibly because many cancers are driven by female hormones such as estrogen, they said, or simply because fewer men get weight-loss surgery. Read the rest of this post

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Jun 29, 2009

Study Finds Significant Relationship Between High BMI & Pancreatic Cancer

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Source – Newswise

In reviewing the weight history of pancreatic cancer patients across their life spans, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have determined that a high body mass index in early adulthood may play a significant role in an individual developing the disease at an earlier age. Read the rest of this post

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Filed under WLS Surgery
Jun 25, 2009

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