by Dawn Anderson If you were to ask the average person on the street how cancer develops, most would know that it involves a mutation in a cell in some part of our body. Many would guess that those mutations are caused by chemicals or inherited genetics. A recent article in The New Yorker by […]
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by Dawn Anderson The holiday decorations are all down and packed away (mostly . . .) and this time of year we tend to think about fresh starts. Have you been considering some shelf cleaning and organizing to start this new year out right? Maybe you have lots of bottles of cleaning supplies and cosmetics
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by Dawn Anderson BACKGROUND The Wisconsin Well Woman Program (WWWP) is part of a national program established by Congress known as the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP). Since 1994, it has made mammograms and pap screenings available at no cost to women living in Wisconsin, ages 45-64 with household incomes below
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by Dawn Anderson In April 2010, The President’s Cancer Panel (PCP) issued a report entitled “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now.” In their opening letter to the President, the authors state, “The Panel was particularly concerned to find that the true burden of environmentally induced cancer has been grossly underestimated. With nearly
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by Dawn Anderson The Department of Defense’s Breast Cancer Research Program issues a yearly report on the current state of breast cancer. This is a summary of the 2021 report, which you can read in its entirety HERE. All specific data references can be found at the end of the original report. INCIDENCE and SCREENING:
