Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps To A Healthier Life - Softcover

Boughton, Barbara; Stefanek, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932603921 ISBN 13: 9781932603927

Verlag: Demos Medical Publishing, 2010

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Cancer experts say more people than ever before are now likely to develop the disease at some time, but due to early intervention, the chances of survival are also increasing. Co-published with the American Cancer Society, Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life provides comprehensive information about how to reduce Cancer risk organised around a 12-step action plan. Written by a patient-expert, a Cancer Research Doctor and reviewed by the American Cancer Society, the book takes the reader from how to assess one's Cancer risk on to the latest cutting edge research on lifestyle changes that can cut an individual's risk factors. Reduce Your Cancer Risk separates fact from fiction about Cancer.

It includes the most up-to-date information on:

• Personal risk assessment
• Lifestyle changes
• Preventive health strategies
• Genetic counselling
• Preventive anti-Cancer medications
• The latest cutting-edge research

The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating Cancer, saving lives and reducing suffering through research, education, advocacy and service. Filled with the most-up-to-date information from the largest and most trusted voluntary health organisation those with a Cancer diagnosis, those whose lives have been touched by Cancer and those who are interested in preventative care will find Reduce Your Cancer Risk is an invaluable resource.

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Barbara Boughton is an award-winning medical and health journalist and editor. Her articles on health and medicine have appeared in national publications such as Consumer Reports, Alternative Medicine magazine and Better Homes and Gardens. A specialist in reporting about cancer, she has been a regular contributor to the medical journal Lancet Oncology and the health clinician website Medscape.com, and has been a contributing writer and editor for several magazines for cancer survivors, including MAMM, In Touch and Women and Cancer magazines.||Michael Stefanek, PhD, is the former Vice President of Behavioral Research and Director of the Behavioral Research Center of the American Cancer Society. He also spent almost a decade as Chief of the Basic and Biobehavioral Research Branch with the National Cancer Institute. He started his career with the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, where his research focused on psychosocial and behavioral oncology, and he has published extensively on issues related to women at high risk of developing breast cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and has presented nationally and internationally in areas related to behavioral oncology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Demos Medical Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1932603921
• ISBN 13: 9781932603927
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Gansler Ted
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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