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By now you should be familiar with the yellow 'LiveStrong' rubber cancer awareness bracelets. They were popularized by seven-time Tour de France cycling champion and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong. The money from their proceeds goes for cancer research.
If he has planning to pitchfork cancer awareness into society's consciousness, Lance Armstrong has done a really good job. His rubber bracelets are ubiquitous today, an ever present awareness tool for cancer, and a fund-raising tool for cancer research.
Among cancer awareness bracelets, next to Armstrong's rubber wristbands come the breast cancer awareness bracelets. However, unlike the 'LiveStrong' rubber band bracelets, these breast
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Lung cancer kills more women every year than breast cancer. In
fact, lung Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death among both
men and women with statistics showing it is an increasing
problem for women especially as they have a proven
susceptibility to developing lung cancer.
However, lung cancer poses additional risks and issues for
women, and these can be generalised in one major way, and that
is to do with smoking.
About 90% of all lung cancer deaths among women are as a direct
result of smoking or breathing in someone else's second-hand
smoke. (This is known as Passive smoking).
Even though research has proven that smoking cause
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Your doctor has said the "C" word and you're puzzling: "Whatdo I do now? There seem to be so many options. The doctor ispressing me to get on with the surgery and chemotherapy/radiation. Help!"I've been there. I know. Unfortunately for my dear wife,there was no readily available information in 1990-1994 (or,at least, I failed to find it)... Now, there's too much onthe Internet and in books, newsletters, etc.A SOUND APPROACHOf all the hundreds of people I have now watched overcome theircancer, there seem to be four "essentials" that they all have.I call them the "Four A's."ATTITUDE -- all cancer survivors
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We hear it all the time...lose weight for your health. Few
people however, realize the extent to which this is critical to
their physical well-being and ultimately their life expectancy.
In January 2003, the Journal of the American Medical Association
featured a study finding that obesity appears to lessen life
expectancy, especially among young adults. The researchers
compared Body-Mass Index (BMI) to longevity and found a
correlation between premature death and higher BMIs. For
example, a 20-year-old white male, 5'10" weighing 288 pounds
with a BMI of greater than 40 was estimated to lose 13 years of
his life as a result of obesity.
Jamie McManus, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. and author of
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Can eating your broccoli and cabbage help protect you against
lung cancer? According to a study published in the October 29,
2005 issue of the British medical journal, Lancet, the answer is
yes.
This isn't the first time that it's been suggested that
cruciferous vegetables may have a preventive effect against lung
cancer, but it is the largest scale study to date. There have
been a number of smaller observational studies that reported a
possible link between the vegetables and lung cancer prevention,
but they were considered to be too small to be definitive. This
study, conducted by a group of researchers at the Genetic
Epidemiology Group at the International
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