Focus on Preventing Cancer
Below are all the Focus articles related specifically to preventing cancer. All Focus articles are also available.
Alcohol in Movies Influences Young Teen Habits
Young teens who watch a lot of movies featuring alcohol are twice as likely to start drinking as their peers who watch relatively few such films, reveals new research from Norris Cotton Cancer Center.
February 21, 2012
Collaborating with Norris Cotton Cancer Center researcher Anna Adachi-Mejia, PhD, students and residents of Woodsville, NH, utilized an innovative kind of photo-journalism to record their ideas about healthy ways to live to minimize the risk of cancer.
January 03, 2012
December 26, 2011
A Question of Family—and Cancer
November 23, 2011
Five Keys for Quitting Smoking
Studies have shown that these five steps will help you quit and quit for good. You have the best chances of quitting if you use them together.
November 14, 2011
Dartmouth Receives $6.1M Women's Breast Cancer Grant
October 24, 2011
Men: Discuss PSA Testing with Your Doctor
New federal draft guidelines issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) that question the necessity of PSA testing for prostate cancer in men should be assessed by men in discussion with their physicians.
October 11, 2011
A new Cancer Center study found that rural mothers perceive specific internal barriers to being adequately physically active.
April 28, 2011
April 26, 2011
Meeting the Challenges to Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer deaths, but it's also one of the few cancers that can be prevented.
April 25, 2011
A Surgeon's Personal Call to Cancer Care
April 20, 2011
The New Hampshire Colorectal Cancer Screening Program aims to increase CRC screening to 80% of the state's residents age 50 and older by 2014.
October 25, 2010
The Cancer Center's Telisa Stewart, MPH, DrPH, teaches youngsters, as well as adults, that a day in the sun is a beautiful thing but that if kids aren't protected, it can also be dangerous.
October 20, 2010
A museum and an examination room both reward close, thoughtful, thorough observation. In one lives are enhanced, in the other lives may be saved.
October 15, 2010





