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Top 8 Ways to Lower Your Cancer Risk This Summer
From Lisa Fayed,
Your Guide to Cancer.
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Summer is a favorite season for many. Warm weather equals more time spent outdoors, more social activities like barbecues and picnics, and much needed vacations. It is also prime time to prevent cancer! These summertime cancer prevention tips will help reduce your risk while you safely enjoy the warm and sunny season.
1) Lather on the sunscreen and apply it correctly.
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer. The good news is that it is also the most preventable type of cancer. Applying sunscreen correctly is an effective way to prevent skin cancer. The problem is that many people are applying it incorrectly, either putting on too little or not soon enough before going outdoors.
2) Get moving!
Experts say that regular exercise is the key to preventing many types of cancer. Warm weather allows us to spend more time being active outdoors, instead of being cooped up in the gym. Activities like walking, swimming, cycling are all excellent ways to get an effective workout while enjoying summer weather. Don’t forget the sunscreen!

Starting a Swimming Fitness Plan
3) Visit your local farmer’s market for fresh fruit and veggies.
Listen to Mom and eat those veggies! Fresh fruit and vegetables are essential for a cancer prevention diet. Fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants, which help repair our damaged cells. Green veggies and orange and yellow fruits and veggies are your best bet.
4) Stay out of the sun during peak times.
Staying out of the sun during peak hours is one of the best ways to prevent skin cancer. The sun’s peak hours are between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., so try to avoid the sun during that time.
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Chemotherapy Side Effects
From Lisa Fayed,
What Are the Side Effects and How to Prevent Them?
People with cancer are often concerned with what chemotherapy side effects are going to occur during their treatment. They often hear about how terrible chemotherapy side effects are and how sick you can feel. What many people don’t realize is that these days, many people do not suffer as many side effects. There are now medications to prevent some of the more complications.

How your medication affects you depends on many factors, such as how aggressive treatment is, overall general health, and what chemotherapy drug is being taken.
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy can produce many side effects, such as:

Anemia, low red blood cell count

Low white blood cell count (this increases risk for infection)

Hair loss, or thinning hair

Bleeding or bruising (due to low platelet count)

Dry skin, or rashes

Fatigue

Diarrhea, constipation

Nausea or vomiting

Muscle and nerve problems

Lung problems and difficulty breathing; coughing excessively

Fertility and sexuality problems

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Tanorexia
From Lisa Fayed,
Could You Be Addicted to Tanning?
Researchers at Wake Forest University may have solved the question as to why many men and women still tan despite being aware of the dangers. These tanorexics, or people who obsessively tan, may have an addiction to the UV rays of tanning beds, even experiencing a ‘high’, much like a drug addiction.

The study has found that the UV rays in tanning beds have an effect the production endorphins, chemicals released from the brain that produce euphoric like feeling in the body. Endorphins are often referred to a our bodies natural morphine, reducing the pain we feel.

The Wake Forest study followed 8 people who tanned at tanning beds frequently, from 8 to 15 times a month and 8 people who tanned less than 12 times year.
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All participants were given a drug to block endorphin production and were instructed to tan in UV and non UV tanning beds.

Those who tanned frequently were more apt to UV ray based beds than there less tanning counterparts. When using non-UV beds, the frequent tanners developed symptoms that are similar to narcotics withdrawal. The less frequent tanners did not experience any symptoms.
The Effects of Tanning on Our Bodies
Did you know that when our skin gets darker from tanning, it is actually a product of skin cell damage? The skin turns darker to protect itself. Tanners are literally damaging their cell’s DNA, which could eventually lead to cancer.

Contrary to popular belief, using tanning beds is no safer than directly tanning in the sun. Many experts believe that tanning beds may be worse than the natural sun because they use UVA rays, which have been linked to melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer.

Tanning can be achieved safely through artificial means, like self tanning lotions, spray on tans, and bronzing cosmetics.

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While mammography guidelines have been debated by health experts in recent years, the American Cancer Society announced that it is keeping its recommendation that women begin receiving annual mammograms at age 40. Other organizations, such as the National Cancer Institute, recommend mammograms for women every one to two years from age 40 to 50 and then every year after age 50. However, the American Cancer Society believes the benefits of annual mammography beginning at age 40 outweigh the risk of inaccurate results.
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