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View Post: New material may help combat arterial disease
22 hours ago by Ani  
November 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Poor kidney function may increase an individual's risk for suffering heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease and early death, reveals a new study. ... in lifestyle can help treat peripheral arterial disease or 'hardening of the arteries' particularly in one's legs. The researchers suggest that lifestyle changes such as smoking cessation, diet and a structured exercise program can help treat the debilitating disease. ...
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View Post: Matthew Yglesias » Improving Efficiency, Not Just Cutting Costs
9 hours ago by myglesias  
And these patients still present risk that cannot be allowed to impede the more important quest for shareholder value: profits. It remains, that it would therefore be more prudent for insurers to rescind policies. urgs Says: ... For example , vaccinations and smoking cessation programs have a negative cost per quality-adjusted-life-year. It would be nice to find more. Omega Centauri Says: November 28th, 2009 at 11:16 pm. To expand on Matt's comment. ...
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View Post: Science-Based Medicine » Cancer prevention: The forgotten ...
16 Nov 2009 by David Gorski  
I continue to be saddened and amazed when my friends who are cancer patients have been given a list of recommended supplements to take by their physicians, and more recently a friend who had been diagnosed with bone degeneration is a wrist and had his ... Also, while you have nice things to say about her comments on smoking cessation and the impact of reducing hormone replacement therapy as cancer prevention, those issues received all of one paragraph each in her story. ...
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View Post: Smoking cessation requires unremitting reinforcement - Cancer Network
19 Oct 2009
Mortality rate was influenced by the length of time between quitting smoking and beginning cancer treatment, with a risk reduction of 40% for patients who had quit less than 12 weeks before diagnosis and 70% for those who had quit more ... Patients who continued to smoke cited a variety of reasons why they were unable to quit, including overwhelming cravings, inability to cope with stress, and lack of support from their treatment center for smoking cessation (see Figure). ...
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View Post: Treatment With Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Associated With Increased ...
17 Nov 2009
Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin B12, according to a study in the November 18 issue of ... The time frame for benefit for some preventive interventions may span decades, although smoking cessation may be unique among lifestyle changes that produce a rapid reduction in cancer risk.” ...
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View Post: Lowering cancer risk, Diet for cancer patients, Cancer prevention ...
10 Nov 2009 by admin  
Smoking cessation is the sole way out if one has genuine concerns regarding one's health and wish to diminish the associated cancer risks. It has even been claimed that one cigarette smoked is equivalent to one minute of your life been ...
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View Post: Treatment with folic acid, vitamin B12 associated with increased ...
17 Nov 2009 by News  
Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and. ... The time frame for benefit for some preventive interventions may span decades, although smoking cessation may be unique among lifestyle changes that produce a rapid reduction in cancer risk." (JAMA. 2009;302[19]:2152-2153. Available pre-embargo to the ...
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View Post: 47000 Women Could Die As a Result of the New Mammogram Guidelines ...
12 hours ago by George Lakoff, AlterNet  
Imagine what you could do with an additional $4 billion spent on cancer prevention. You could offer free smoking cessation programs to the nation's 20 million smokers. You could offer free gym memberships and dietary counseling to the obese . You could spread the word among women that .... In addition, 10 healthy women who would not have been diagnosed if there had not been screening, will be diagnosed as breast cancer patients and will be treated unnecessarily." ...
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View Post: Baby boomers don't receive enough preventive health
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25 Nov 2009 by Kevin   ...
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View Post: Websites, Resources, & Support - Cancer Patient Information
29 Oct 2009 by SCCA  
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/prevention/control-of-tobacco-use/patient/allpages 1-800-4- Cancer (422-6237); Link to Smoking Cessation Fact Sheets 1-800-4- Cancer (422-6237) http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco ...
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