Two years ago during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we posted over nine days excerpts from our, then, new book TOGETHER: Every Woman’s Guide to Preventing Breast Cancer. Each of the nine days focussed on a single practical step that could help lower the risk of the disease. With each of the steps still relevant and […]
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How Does Your State’s Health Stack Up?
Ever wonder how you’re state stacks up compared to others when it comes to important health risk factors? If so, a tool from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (below) can help you do just that. And while it can be fun to click through and explore the data from different states and for […]
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center: 25 Years of Progress on the Links Between Overweight and Cancer
At today’s annual symposium of the Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC), CNiC’s Dr. Graham Colditz delivered a plenary session talk reviewing BNOCR’s 25-year contribution to the science on obesity and cancer. A past associate director of the Center, Colditz also paid tribute to groundbreaking nutrition researcher, George Blackburn, who passed away in February 2017 […]
Stark Inequality: Study Finds 20-Year Difference in Life Expectancy Between Counties in United States
By Hank Dart Differences in life expectancy in the United States can vary greatly depending on the county in which you live. That’s the finding of a new analysis out of the University of Washington and published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Using data from the Human Mortality Database, National Center for Health Statistics, and […]
Study Looks at Economic Cost of Physical Inactivity. Hint: It’s Big.
A new analysis published last week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that physical inactivity results in a significant economic burden the world over. Though the authors found that studies looking at the economic impact of inactivity lacked consistent methodology – which, therefore, limited specific conclusions – sedentary lifestyles were found to account […]
Reaching the Goal of 80% Colon Cancer Screening by 2018: Practical Lessons from Community Clinics
A great interview this week with Belma Andrić, MD, MPH on the 80% by 2018 blog highlights successful approaches that can boost colon cancer screening rates at community clinics with underserved populations. During her tenure as Medical Director with C. L. Brumback Primary Care Clinics in Florida, colon screening rates increased from 21 percent in 2013 […]
Looking for a Good Return on Investment? Fund Public Health Programs
In a recent New England Journal of Medicine Sounding Board article, Karen Emmons and Cancer News in Context’s Graham Colditz detailed the well-established health and economic benefits of disease prevention programs. One example they highlighted was the more than double return on investment (ROI) of dollars put towards a tobacco cessation program in Massachusetts. […]
Help Protect Kids from Cancer: Support a Ban on Youth Indoor Tanning
by Hank Dart We’ve written a great deal in CNiC over the years on the dangers of indoor tanning, with one primary theme being the allure it has to young people, especially teenage girls. It even seems to border on an addiction of sorts, as some research suggests. With UV exposure in youth and young […]