Reduce your risks
Positive changes in your lifestyle can make a difference. That means a healthful diet, no smoking, regular exercise, limiting alcohol consumption, avoiding the sun, and periodic health screening. We know it’s not easy to let go of old habts, but a few changes can make a difference!
Chew on this
A low-fat high-fiber diet can help you guard against certain types of cancer. Include five servings a day of fruits and vegetables for the dietary fiber, vitamins, and minerals you need to boost your body’s immune system. In particular, tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, grapes, and onions are thought to help discourage the growth of cancer cells. Also add whole grain bread, cereals, rice, pasta and beans to your grocery shopping list. And limit your consumption of alcohol.
Check your risk factor Go to http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cancer/risk/index.htm and take the questionaire. Get helpful tips on how to reduce your risk of cancer.
Provided by “Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention”
Check it out
In this I’ll-get-to-it-when-I-can world we live in, we often don’t make time for our health. Many of the examinations that can detect cancers at an early, treatable stage–mammograms, skin cancer, pap smears-don’t take long and involve little, if any, discomfort. So talk to your health care provider about making cancer screenings a regular part of your health care program. Take the time !
Want to check your risk factor?
Go to http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cancer/risk/index.htm and take the questionaire. Get helpful tips on how to reduce your risk of cancer.
Provided by “Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention”
Making CENTS of it all!
A screening mammogram is an x-ray of the breast that is used to find cancer in women who have no signs of the disease. It generally costs between $100 and $150.
National Imaging Associates a typical PET costs about $2,000, an MRI costs about $700 to $900 and a CAT scan is about $500 to $700.
Radiological Society of North America estimates the cost comparison of percutaneous biopsy versus surgical biopsy.
| Percutaneous | Surgical | |
|---|---|---|
| First Strategy | $543,245 | 1,919,867 |
| Per Patient Direct | ||
| Hospital Cost | $800 | $3,419 |
| Professional cost | $438 | $955 |
CT Scan Detects Early Lung Cancer “Patients May Benefit from Earlier Intervention” 2001/08/01
Questions arise about costs, need for medical scans 1/30/05 By Christopher Snowbeck, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Percutaneous abdominal biopsy: cost-identification analysis Radiology, Vol 206, 429-435, Copyright © 1998 by Radiological Society of North America
