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Smoking: Taking You A Step Closer To Oropharyngeal Cancer

Smoking: Taking You A Step Closer To Oropharyngeal Cancer

Smoking: Taking You A Step Closer To Oropharyngeal Cancer Smoking, they say, is the leading cause of lung cancer world-wide. A recent study shows that, in the United States alone, 157,200 people have died of smoking-related lung cancer. Some of which are caused directly by smoking, and some due to second hand smoke. However the effect of smoking does not only stop at lung cancer. Smoking and cancer Statistics show that smoking attributes to 54% of mouth cancers, 50% of esophageal cancers, and 70% of cancer of the larynx. And also, in relation to men and women’s sexual health, smoking...

Traveling Exhibit Offers Closer Look at Cancer

Traveling Exhibit Offers Closer Look at Cancer

Traveling Exhibit Offers Closer Look at Cancer A unique, interactive exhibit is traveling to 12 cities nationwide to educate health-conscious and at-risk people about cancers from the top of the body to the bottom – skin, oral, breast, prostate, lung and colorectal. The Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation’s Check Your Insides Out -From Top to Bottom exhibit features six hands-on, family-friendly learning stations that enable visitors to: * Learn about the effects of sun exposure and the damage it can do to skin. * Walk through a gigantic, 20-foot-long, 8-foot-high colon to see healthy colon tissue and the various stages...