Cancer Prevention Strategies highlighted at
AACR 101st 2010 Annual Meeting
Newswise,, April 2010 — Interest in cancer
prevention is increasing as scientists
continue to learn new information and
confirm what was already suspected.
“At least half of all cancer deaths are
preventable by what we already know about
healthy eating, exercise, maintaining
appropriate weight, avoiding smoking and
going for regular screenings,” said Ernest
T. Hawk, M.D., M.P.H., vice president of the
division of cancer prevention & population
sciences at The University of Texas M. D.
Anderson Cancer Center.
Obesity and weight gain contribute to risk
of prostate cancer recurrence after
prostatectomy, especially in inactive men,
according to results of a retrospective
cohort study.
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Cancer Research is to prevent and cure
cancer. Founded in 1907, the AACR is the
world’s oldest and largest professional
organization dedicated to advancing cancer
research.
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translational and clinical researchers;
health care professionals; and cancer
survivors and advocates in the United States
and more than 90 other countries.
The
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from the cancer community to accelerate
progress in the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of cancer through high-quality
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It funds innovative, meritorious research
grants, research fellowship and career
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The AACR Annual Meeting attracts more than
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discoveries and developments in the field.
Special conferences throughout the year
present novel data across a wide variety of
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patient care.
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Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; and
Cancer Prevention Research.
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Stories on the studies follow:
Prostate Cancer
Victims' lifestyles examined...Corinne
E. Joshu, M.P.H., Ph.D., a postdoctoral
fellow in the department of epidemiology at
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health in Baltimore and colleagues followed
1,337 men with clinically-localized prostate
cancer who underwent prostatectomy between
1993 and 2006...(click here to read
rest of story)
Prediagnostic body
mass index (BMI), plasma C-peptide levels
and cigarette smoking predict prostate
cancer-specific and overall mortality: A
27-year survival analysis in men with
prostate cancer...Although
obesity and smoking are not necessarily risk
factors for prostate cancer, they do appear
to increase the risk of dying from the
cancer once a patient is diagnosed with it,
according to a study conducted at the
Brigham and Women’s Hospital...(click
here to read rest of story)
Red
meat and heterocyclic amine intake,
metabolic pathway genes and bladder cancer
risk...High
consumption of red meat or fried meat and a
person’s genetic makeup are all associated
with an increased risk of developing bladder
cancer...(click here to read rest of
story)
Environmental tobacco smoke in relation to
bladder cancer risk: The Shanghai Bladder
Cancer Study...
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke,
also called secondhand smoke, increased the
risk of bladder cancer among participants of
a population-based study conducted in
Shanghai, China...Specifically, lifelong
nonsmokers whose mothers smoked more than 10
pack-years had a 3.51-fold increased risk of
bladder cancer compared to lifelong
nonsmokers who had never been exposed to
secondhand smoke...(click here to read rest
of story)
Attributable risks for hepatocellular
carcinoma in the United States...Controlling diabetes may lead to decreased
risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or
liver cancer, in the United States...(click
here to read rest of story)
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