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Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life"" combines comprehensive information about how to reduce cancer risk organized around a 12-step action plan. Written by a patient-expert with the help of a cancer research doctor, the book takes the reader from how to assess one's cancer risk on to the latest cutting edge research on lifestyle changes that can cut an individual's risk factors. ""Reduce Your Cancer Risk"" separates fact from fiction about cancer. The book also presents advice for the average reader and those who have above-average or family risk for cancer. As well as discussing important lifestyle changes, ""Reduce Your Cancer Risk"" informs readers about important preventive health strategies for those who have above-average risk for cancer, such as genetic counseling and preventive anti-cancer medications.
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Barbara Boughton is an award-winning freelance writer and editor whose health and medical articles have appeared in publications such as the Lancet Oncology, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Consumer Reports and Better Homes and Gardens. She is a former contributing editor for In Touch, a magazine for cancer patients. A former reporter and columnist for the Houston Post in Texas, she is the recipient of the Barbara Jordan Communications Award for writing about people with disabilities. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979, and grew up in Old Bethpage, a town on Long Island, New York. Michael Stefanek, PhD, is the Vice President of Behavioral Research and Director of the Behavioral Research Center of the American Cancer Society. His research has focused on psychosocial and behavioral oncology, and he has published extensively on issues related to women at high risk of developing breast cancer. He is the author of numerous scientific articles and has presented nationally and internationally in areas related to behavioral oncology. He lectures at medical conferences such as the American Association of Cancer Research and the Society of Behavioral Medicine several times each year.
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