Cancer - Prevention

Genes play a large role in whether or not someone is susceptible to a particular disease or condition. Find out if your family history raising your risk of skin cancer.

Controversy is brewing about whether routine PSA testing for prostate cancer is beneficial and whether it saves lives.

Find out what links your diet and your risk for developing this form of cancer.

Learn about a surprising side effect of this common therapy.

How can this procedure help you? Find out here.

Find out how you can catch prostate cancer before it takes hold.

This simple blood test measures the level of PSA, a protein produced in the prostate, present in a man s body.

Colonoscopy isn't the only way to screen for colon cancer.

In 2006, the Food and Drug Administration approved Gardisall, a vaccination to prevent cervical cancer. We know for a fact that HPV human papilloma virus causes cervical cancer. Although less common, HPV can also cause other cancers as well.

Study sheds new light on the diabetes and breast cancer link.

Find out if getting some support is the boost you need to kick the habit.

Who would have thought that your allergies could be a blessing in disguise?

Here's a simple way to get to know your moles.

As fans mourn the passing of Patrick Swayze from pancreatic cancer, learn about this deadly disease and how to reduce your risk.

Younger men who are very active sexually seem more prone to prostate cancer.

Just because some are more notorious than others, doesn't make these cancers less deadly.

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging, or thermography, may be the best breast cancer screening tool you ve never heard of.

Here, the link between diabetes and pancreatic cancer and a diabetes medication that can lower the risk.

It's not possible to be addicted to tanning...is it?

Is brain cancer treatable? The death of Ted Kennedy has sounded the alarm of this rare disease. New advances in treatment offer more hope than before.

Here s a look at the five deadliest cancers and the factors that may increase your risk.

Learn how to protect your fertility when you have cancer.

Numerous studies over the past seven years have produced conflicting results as to whether certain antidepressants reduce the effectiveness of tamoxifen, a drug women with breast cancer often take.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews the safety of autoimmune disorder drugs.

Find out how this one procedure can make all the difference.

Getting a colonoscopy is one of the best ways to prevent colon cancer. However, there are a few things you should know before heading into this procedure.

If you have Crohn s disease, you are probably already familiar with what it s like to have a colonoscopy. Physicians use this procedure to diagnose bowel disease and it s invaluable in screening for colon and rectal cancer.

With so many women being diagnosed with breast cancer every year, it may seem inevitable that you or someone you know will get it. The good news is there are many things you can do to help prevent the disease.

After 20 years of treating breast cancer with less invasive techniques such as a lumpectomy, the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. Now, many women are opting to have both breasts removed after they develop cancer in one breast. If you are facing breast cancer, here s what you should know.

A new help for cancer patients may be on the horizon.