Cancer Prevention

Women's health: Preventing top 10 threats

The biggest threats to women's health are mostly preventable. Here's what you need to know to live a longer, healthier life.

Many of the leading threats to women's health can be prevented — if you know how. Consider this top 10 list of women's health threats, compiled from statistics provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other organizations. Then take steps to promote women's health and reduce your risks today.

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer

The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.

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Nicholas D. Kristof

How can I decrease my risk of cancer?

Changing the way you live, act and eat can reduce the chance of cancer. Some of the changes take little effort. Most of them are just common sense.

It’s time to stop using tobacco

Tanning beds face new taxes and restrictions

Growing concerns about the dangers of indoor tanning beds are leading to new taxes — and possibly new restrictions — designed to curb the practice among young people.

Study Finds 'Epidemic' of Skin Cancer

Skin Cancer Rates Are on the Rise, Despite Years of Warnings About Sunscreen

PLASTICS: Breast Cancer & The Estrogen Connection

Doctors Tell Women to Take Charge of Health

8 Surprising Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer in the Kitchen

The Daily Green recently invited Janet Gray, a professor at Vassar College and a board member of the Breast Cancer Fund, to share simple tips that can help reduce breast cancer risk factors. Gray developed the Environmental Risks and Breast Cancer project to communicate known and suspected environmental breast cancer risk factors to the general public.

The Smartest Cancer Advice You've Ever Heard

These medical professionals treat the disease--and they've all had it themselves. Here's how they say you can stay healthy.

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