Photo by Cody Pope/Vector Center What increases your risk of getting cancer? Is perception aligned with reality? This is Part Two of three articles revealing results of a study by Vector Center for Less Cancer’s National Cancer Prevention Day Workshop. Alcohol Is reality data aligned with public perception about links between cancer and alcohol? The
This is Part One of three articles detailing an original research project created by Vector Center for Less Cancer’s National Cancer Prevention Day Workshop. What increases your risk of getting cancer? Is perception aligned with reality? This is a year when evidence-based science has come under attack in Washington, “fake news” is a new household
I will be joining Less Cancer’s National Cancer Prevention Day this year via Skype. I am honored to be a part of this year’s National Cancer Prevention Day where scientists and others come together to talk about how we can PREVENT CANCER. I have worked closely with Less Cancer over the last few years on
Photo by Sebas Ribas In our digital age, it is all too easy to share or retweet an article or a social media post full of myths, rumors, conspiracy theories, opinions, and misleading news. Recent hot topics have revolved around click-bait, bots, “fake news,” and “alternative facts,” demonstrating that the viral inevitability of information does not
Nettie rides to preschool My first and only trip to the nation’s capital was because of cancer. 16 years later, I’m going back because of cancer. It was October, 2002. My dad, Tom Schmidt, was dying of cancer. We came to the National Institute of Health for a miracle but the treatment didn’t work. He
Photo by Jorge Alcala February 7 is National Cancer Prevention Day. I have attended for several years, but this will be my first opportunity to speak to the attendees in my new role as Board Chair of Less Cancer. I have known Bill Couzens for 25 years and remember when he began this journey that has
As a nation, we have been fascinated with the idea of war. The country was forged in a Revolutionary War, held together in a Civil War, took the mantle of global leadership in World War Two. The sides were always clear. We knew who we were at our core. Now in a culture shift of
This time last year, Obama’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was poised to swiftly ban asbestos, having selected it as one of ten high-risk toxins for prioritized risk evaluation and regulation under the newly reformed Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). One year later and now under a Trump administration, the EPA appears focused on cutting
Republicans are talking incessantly about the need to “fix” the Affordable Care Act (ACT) or “Obamacare” by the end of 2017. The ACA was coined “Obamacare” as a fallacious argument covering for a right-wing conservative agenda to hide changes to redistribution of health care costs. Most of those involved in the passage of the ACA
This last week I was visiting Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. I went for a second opinion for pancreatic cysts that I discovered earlier this year at the University of Virginia. The cysts are neoplasms, which are tumors but referred to as cysts. The good news is that they are not
