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Mayo Clinic Minute: 5 cancer prevention strategies
Results from the latest Mayo Clinic National Health Check-Up survey show Americans who are concerned about cancer may not be aware of all the ways they can prevent it.
“That's one of the benefits of this survey,” explains Dr. John Wald, medical director for Public Affairs at Mayo Clinic. “It allows us to understand where there are gaps in information and to address them.”
For example, Dr. Wald says 84 percent of survey participants indicated they would use a cancer prevention vaccine. However, only 40 percent of woman and fewer than 10 percent of men currently get the cancer prevention vaccine for HPV.
“That tells us there is a disconnect,” explains Dr. Wald. “And, that's an opportunity for us to create a new conversation.”
In this Mayo Clinic Minute, Dr. Wald starts that conversation with five simple cancer prevention strategies you can work into your life.
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when asked about the greatest challenges in healthcare participants in mayo Clinic's National Health checkup put cancer at the top of the list for someone that's listed cancer as the number one concern I would say we're making great inroads into cancer treatment and prevention Dr John Wald is medical director for public affairs at Mayo Clinic he points to breast cancer treatment as one example of the strides being made if you look at the overall survival rate for all forms of breast cancer that survival rate is now greater than 90% as researchers continue their investigation Dr Wald says there are things you can do to improve your personal odds against cancer first get screened whether that's for prostate cancer or breast cancer We As Americans have to be screened and then there are the other things that we can do at the top of that list don't smoke eat a balanced diet exercise regularly and ask your doctor about any available cancer prevention vaccines for the Mayo Clinic News Network I'm Jeff Olson
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