Cancer is a common disease in the United States; roughly 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Most of the time, cancer is sporadic - due to  multiple factors such as chance, environmental exposures, and lifestyle. Occasionally, cancers appear to cluster in a family and may have certain characteristics that suggest  the risk for cancer is running in the family. Maybe you were diagnosed with cancer less than 50 years old. Maybe there are

In 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) began a multi-year study of nearly 30,000 fire fighters from the Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Fire Departments to better understand the potential link between firefighting and cancer. The study was a joint effort led by researchers at NIOSH in collaboration with researchers at the National Cancer Institute and the University of California at Davis Department of Public Health Sciences, and s

No one likes to hear the dreaded “C” word….”colonoscopy”. However, routine screening for colorectal cancer undoubtedly saves lives by discovering the disease before it reaches an advanced stage. According to the American Cancer Society colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States among men and women combined, yet it’s the most preventable (American Cancer Society, 2017). Finding the disease early, when it is smaller and easier to treat, is key