#cancer-prevention

#cancer-prevention

This walk works to raise awareness for people out there regarding screening for colon cancer. It's truly a preventable disease and at 45 years old, everybody should be screened. We are excited to have our community members join us, and I'm excited to say we've raised almost $20,000 for the Colorectal Cancer Alliance.

This study is really good news for those who follow a vegetarian diet because they have a lower risk of five cancer types, some of which are very prevalent in the population. While being vegetarian appeared to be protective overall, the scientists also found that those who follow a vegetarian diet had nearly double the risk of the most common type of cancer of the oesophagus, known as squamous cell carcinoma, compared with meat eaters.

Overall, vegetarians had a lower risk of five kinds of cancer, including some of the most lethal cancers, like breast cancer and prostate cancer. Pescatarians also had a lower risk of colorectal, breast, and kidney cancer, compared to red meat eaters, and poultry-eaters who avoided red meat suffered fewer cases of prostate cancer.

The first thing to say is that cancer is a very common condition. One in two of us in our lifetimes will be diagnosed with cancer. It is sometimes literally the ageing within a particular community. People have settled in an area at a particular time. We have talked about the ageing of our population. There are modifiable and non-modifiable risks for cancer and one of the most obvious non-modifiable ones is your age.

Undergoing a double mastectomy was a proactive choice driven by a 60% chance of developing ovarian cancer and an 85% likelihood of breast cancer due to a genetic mutation.

Prof Sir John Burn from Newcastle University stated that a study involving 1,879 individuals with Lynch syndrome shows a low dose of 75mg aspirin effectively reduces cancer risk as larger doses.

food is medicine

A landmark trial showed that exercise could be as effective as drugs in preventing the recurrence of colon cancer, highlighting the need to promote fitness seriously.