How to lower your cancer risk
Are there things you can do to lower your risk of cancer? Cancer – such a scary word. All of us have known people who have had cancer. Are there things you can do to lower your cancer risk? I was surprised this week as I was meeting with a nurse practitioner and when I asked her about diet and lowering your risk of cancer, she responded that it is all genetics. There was nothing one could do to lower their risk of getting cancer. She is partially correct, genetics does play a role. The American Cancer Society notes that “although our genes influence our risk of cancer, most of the difference in cancer risk between people is due to factors that are not inherited”. The American Cancer Society is a great resource about things we can do to lower our risk of getting cancer. In fact, the American Cancer Society states, “for most Americans who do not use tobacco, the most important cancer risk factors that can b...