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Research Updates

Prevention

  • Healthy Habits

    What’s The Beef?

    Get the facts about meat consumption and cancer risk.

    by Brenda Conaway

  • Forward Look

    Should the Age to Buy Cigarettes Be 21?

    Q&A with CDC's Brian King on reducing teen access to tobacco products.

    by Chris Palmer

  • Global Report

    A Dutch Dilemma

    While much of the Western world was tightening restrictions on smoking, one European nation, the Netherlands, found itself embroiled in a political struggle between individual freedoms and public health.

    by Cynthia Ryan

  • Healthy Habits

    Get Your Move On

    To reduce body fat, and breast cancer risk, more exercise is better.

    by Brenda Conaway

  • Colorectal Cancer: A Troubling Trend

    More people are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer before 50, the recommended age to start screening.

    by Charlotte Huff

  • Healthy Habits

    Pile on the Veggies

    A study evaluates whether a change in diet could slow prostate cancer growth.

    by Melinda Mahaffey Icden

  • Healthy Habits

    Nothing Healthy About a Tan

    The CDC calls for community efforts to halt rising rates of melanoma.

    by Brenda Conaway

  • Forward Look

    Identifying Ovarian Cancer Risk

    Study may help spotlight women who would benefit from risk reduction strategies.

    by Carrie Printz

  • First Person

    To Test or Not to Test

    Twenty-two years after the first of two breast cancer diagnoses, a survivor decides to undergo genetic testing.

    by Cynthia Ryan

  • From the Editor-in-Chief

    Inheritance, ‘Bad Luck’ and the Environment

    Why do some people develop cancer while others do not?

    by William G. Nelson, MD, PhD