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Growing Bolder guru Dr. John Langdon, a top cancer researcher, has a free way you can assess your cancer risk and help your personal doctor change the entire direction of your healthcare.

Dr. John Langdon is one of the country's top cancer experts, and as a Growing Bolder Guru, he's here to help you tell your stories of survival and hope. This week, he's weighing in on the causes of cancer. Check out his new blog!

Nutritionists and other professionals have often warned that the food we eat can increase our chances of developing cancer. Now, information is coming out that shows that our diets can also increase the risk of having a recurrence of cancer that has already been treated. The Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Dietary Intervention Trial, which monitored women's diets for seven years...

One out of every eight women in the United States will face the breast cancer, despite medical advances. Early detection, for example, using tomosynthesis, an innovative technology that provides three-dimensional detailed imaging of the breast, and effective treatments have improved the survival rate of breast cancer patients. In fact, when breast cancer is detected early and confined to the...

Dear Friends, Last month was "Breast Cancer Awareness" month and I didn't hear any organization telling women how to protect themselves. No one spoke of clinically-proven supplements minimize cancer risk. It was all about "awareness" for sure, about ways to churn more money into the health care screening system, or how you should better support billion-dollar organizations! Ughghghgh!...

Cancer does not "just happen". Cancer along with many other common diseases is not just a chance occurrence. There is a growing and unequivocal body of evidence supporting the concept that most common diseases are the result of complex interactions between a persons basic genetic heritage and multiple environmental factors. Over time it will be our goal to examine these...

In our last chat we discussed a variety of issues related to disease disposition. While the environment plays a big role and one that we will want to dwell on at some length we have to recognize up front our own internal risk. Where does this risk reside? It is buried deep within our chromosomes [DNA]. A bewildering array of complex and expensive tests are making their way in to the...

Our national healthcare plan should start with each and every one of us taking control of and...