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Get Smart – Go Dirty

July 26, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

  To prevent cancer, change early childhood education.   Not the book-kind, but  the biologically intelligent kind. If you do, you might change the incident of type I diabetes, asthma, peanut allergies, and MS. That’s the conclusion drawn by Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and now many other researchers.  Decades of varied studies demonstrate that the immune system […]

Cancerland (2/10/14)

February 10, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Number One The number one cause of death in the US is cancer.  Many of us go to doctors yearly.  We nervously wait for the results of tests. Do I have the Big C – or don’t I? Now cancer is moving on to become the number one cause of death globally, according to the […]

To Screen or Not to Screen for Cancer (11/5/12)

November 5, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Cancer Prevention Who would not wish to prevent cancer?  When President Nixon started the “War on Cancer,” hopes were high that cancer screening would dramatically lower cancer incidence and death. It did not work out that way. Now, researchers often wonder how much screening benefits hospitals and providers – compared to patients.  In his book […]

The War on Cancer and the War on Terror – what they have in common (1/3/12)

January 3, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Who Wins? Historians often view wars as ending with winners and losers.  We “won” World War II – and the Germans and Japanese lost. In most human conflicts results are less clear-cut. People don’t tend to think of the “War on Cancer”  – started by President Nixon – and the “War on Terror” – begun […]

Can you cut your cancer risk by half? (12/12/11)

December 12, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Health Versus Health Care America’s health care budget is 2.6 trillion dollars. On its own it would rank as the fifth largest economy in the world. We’re 49th in overall mortality. How much of this vast spending goes to health prevention? A pittance. Not enough people make money on preventing illness, though plenty make money […]

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