We do have fairly high rates of screening for breast cancer and cervical cancer. I think that is having a very positive impact on mortality rates for those diseases. |
We need to invest in prevention because it's better for the quality of life of people if they live longer without a chronic or disabling disease, ... and it's better for us as a nation because we're not putting so many resources in treatment of chronic diseases. |
We need to make every effort to increase the use of colon and rectum cancer screening among adults over the age of 50. |
We will not make much of this until the final data come out. |
We're absolutely thrilled that this project has come to fruition. The opening day was fantastic and the youngsters are now using the park well. |
While we have so much information about changes that would be necessary to decrease the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, it's not clear how to change society and change policy to help those changes take place. It's disturbing that we have so much information now but we haven't really achieved the social will to make the kinds of changes that would need to be made to really impact tobacco smoking and the trends of increasing overweight and obesity. |