Making small changes could make a big difference in preventing cancer. Avoid preventable risk factors by incorporating these guidelines into of your lifestyle. Three choices can make a vast difference in increasing your odds for staying healthy and keeping yourself in check. Don't Smoke Tobacco Smoking damages nearly every organ in the human body, is linked to at least … [Read more...] about Small Changes Can Help Prevent Cancer
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Smoking’s Effects on Genes May Play a Role in Lung Cancer Development and Survival
Smoking plays a role in lung cancer development, and now scientists have shown that smoking also affects the way genes are expressed, leading to alterations in cell division and regulation of immune response. Notably, some of the changes in gene expression persisted in people who had quit smoking many years earlier. These findings by researchers at the National Cancer … [Read more...] about Smoking’s Effects on Genes May Play a Role in Lung Cancer Development and Survival
Study: Smokers’ Wives Have Higher Cancer Risk
New study alerts wives who are subjected to second hand smoke. Sounding a warning over the dangers of passive smoking, a large-scale government study has found that women whose husbands smoke at home have twice the risk of developing a specific type of lung cancer compared with those married to nonsmokers. The research team of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry that … [Read more...] about Study: Smokers’ Wives Have Higher Cancer Risk
Young Victim of Smoking Leaves Legacy for the Youth
We opened up with a joke on his first name. With a gentle smile, Erphacksand Kinyua Mureithi explained that the name was handed down to him from his paternal grandfather, although it is biblical. The challenge of doing this story from an interview that Kinyua gave a month before he died, is that it has to be in the past tense. Kinyua was one of the youngest lung cancer … [Read more...] about Young Victim of Smoking Leaves Legacy for the Youth
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