Dec 7, 2009 6:27pm
Cancer News: Prevention and Early Detection
EmailA government report out today shows that gains are being made in the war on cancer. Both new cancer cases and new cancer deaths are down. It’s estimated that almost 1.5 million Americans will get a new cancer diagnosis this year, and more the 562,000 people will die from cancer. Sobering statistics to be sure, but a marked improvement on years past.
The American Cancer Society has put together a section on prevention and early detection for cancer. It gives many specifics about what you can do to protect yourself. Click HERE to visit their website.
And ABC News has a section on prevention and treatment as well. Click HERE for more.
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How does the National Cancer Institute or National Cancer Society come up with their figures on cancer deaths? Both my mother and my husband died (six months apart)of cancer related problems but there is nothing on their death certificates that indicates that they had cancer.
Posted by: Sherry Dysart | December 7, 2009, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
So sorry for your losses Sherry. That seems like too much to take. My sister has cancer and is not in the least positive about her outcome. Way too many people are still not surviving this terrible killer.
Posted by: Vicki | December 7, 2009, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
Using the metaphor “war on cancer” in this context is misleading.The decline in cancer deaths is due mainly to prevention and early diagnosis, both are NOT wars.People are killed in wars, but lives are saved by findings ways to reduce cancer incidence.To reduce the burden of cancer is a noble cause and not a war.
Please refer to my article “let us find another metaphor for the “war on cancer”
in Oncology Times, March 25 2007.
Thank you.
Tahseen Al-Saleem
Professor
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Philadelphia Pa
Posted by: Tahseen Al-Saleem,M.D | December 7, 2009, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
I did not hear or see anything on skin cancer which is the #1 type of cancer and by all accounts will have over 1 million new cases in 2010. Approx 1 person dies every hour of every day from skin cancer
Posted by: Paul Martucci | December 7, 2009, 9:05 pm 9:05 pm
Keep eating that Monsanto creation known as rBGH. It really is amazing what the food companies have come up with and the FDA has called nutritious.
Posted by: Huh | December 7, 2009, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm