Tag: Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention

  • Science & Tech

    Your community may be harmful to your health

    In 1996 the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention reported that 50 percent of all cancer risk could be eliminated though a modified diet, increased exercise, limited alcohol intake and cessation…

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  • Health

    Determining colon cancer risk is becoming easier

    More than 50 percent of colon cancers can be prevented through lifestyle changes and regular screening tests. The lifestyle changes are the same ones that reduce your risk of heart…

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  • Health

    Researchers see better treatments for cancer

    “Before the development of insulin, diabetes was as deadly as many cancers are today,” says Harvard researcher Joseph Paul Eder, who is testing Endostatin on patients with advanced cancers. “In…

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