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Focus on Preventing Cancer

Focus is the online newsletter for Norris Cotton Cancer Center.

News is posted as it happens, making Focus the most up-to-date source of information about the developments and people at the Cancer Center.

Below are all the Focus articles related specifically to preventing cancer. All Focus articles are also available.

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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

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Picturing Healthy Living

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

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Fast Food in the Movies

Kids are getting an eyeful of positive fast-food impressions every time they go to the movies.

December 26, 2011

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A Question of Family—and Cancer

Why do certain kinds of cancers evidently appear generation to generation in certain families? The Familial Cancer Program offers family history analysis, risk assessment, screening and prevention recommendations, genetic counseling, and genetic testing.

November 23, 2011

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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

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Dartmouth Receives $6.1M Women's Breast Cancer Grant

A new Breast Cancer Screening Center will develop and test new informational tools to help women understand the benefits of screening.

October 24, 2011

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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

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Rural Mothers and Exercise

A new Cancer Center study found that rural mothers perceive specific internal barriers to being adequately physically active.

April 28, 2011

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A Numbers Game

"The question policymakers have to ask themselves is, 'Who would benefit the most screening?' It’s easy to say, 'Everyone,' but in an era of limited resources that’s not a useful answer." – Samir Soneji, PhD

April 26, 2011

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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

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A Surgeon's Personal Call to Cancer Care

Patients connect with Stefan Holubar, MD, and he connects with them, in the exclusive bond of shared experience.

April 20, 2011

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"A Tremendous Opportunity"

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

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Pitching Prevention

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

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Learning to Look

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

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By the Numbers

Medical consumers face an increasingly dense thicket of statistical claims about medicines, procedures, and tests.

July 10, 2010

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