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+Cancer | September 28, 2011

Study: Men May Benefit from Earlier Colonoscopy, But Women Can Wait

By Alice Park

Colonoscopies aren’t the most pleasant medical procedures around, but regular colon-cancer screening can potentially save your life. That’s why doctors and most professional medical organizations recommend that all men and women start getting colonoscopy screenings at age 50. But now researchers from Vienna, Austria, report that colon tumors develop more often and earlier in men than in women, suggesting that the blanket screening guidelines should be reconsidered.

+Numbers | July 6, 2011

65%

Percent of Americans aged 50 to 75 who were adequately screened for colorectal cancer in 2010, up from 52% in 2002. Over roughly the same time period, the rate of colorectal cancer cases decreased — from 52.3 per 100,000 people in 2003 to 45.5 per 100,000 people in 2007, a 3.4% drop per year. Colorectal [...]

+Photos Diet | June 10, 2011

Tips for a Healthy, Cancer-Free BBQ

By Alice Park
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It’s summertime, and that means cookouts and barbecues. But that also means an increase in cancer risk — both from the act of cooking food on the fire and from the processed, red meats that commonly make their way onto the grill. So the experts at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have come [...]

+Numbers | April 8, 2011

10%

Percentage of all cancers in men that can be attributed to alcohol; for women the figure is 3%, according to a new study involving nearly 364,000 European adults. The more alcohol people drank, the greater the risk, particularly for cancers of the esophagus, liver, bowels and breast. But previous studies have also shown that moderate [...]

+Numbers | March 10, 2011

11.7 million

Number of cancer survivors in the U.S. in 2007, up from 9.8 million in 2001 and just 3 million in 1971. Breast, prostate and colorectal cancers were the most common types of cancer among survivors, accounting for 51% of diagnoses. [via CDC]

+Cancer | December 7, 2010

Study: Daily Aspirin Helps Reduce Cancer Deaths

By Meredith Melnick
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Millions of middle-aged and elderly people already take a low-dose aspirin to lower their risk of heart attack or stroke. But could their daily preventive be staving off cancer too? New research published Dec. 7 in The Lancet suggests that it does.

+Diet | September 7, 2010

Which Low-Carb Diet Is Healthiest?

By Meredith Melnick
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While the extreme version of the low-carb diet — the controversial high-protein, high-fat Atkins Nutritional Approach — has fallen mostly out of favor since its peak in the 1990s, it did get one thing right: cutting out refined carbohydrates is good for our waistline.