You’ve been diagnosed with cancer. You are either being treated for cancer, or you have completed your treatment, survived and have moved on with life. Naturally, you will do everything you can to improve your chances that your treatment will be successful and that the cancer won’t recur. And, that you will do what you can to reduce the odds of developing another cancer somewhere in your body.
Not so fast. If you are a smoker, a recent study published in the Journal of Oncology Practice suggests that if you follow the above scenario, you are the exception and not the rule.
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An article in the January issue of Wired Magazine nicely details how the hope of new breakthroughs in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer run headlong into the realities that inevitably occur. It also points out how perseverance and optimism—appropriately focused on the issue at hand—may take us to success as we pursue our dreams of reducing in incidence and burden of cancer.
The article, titled “The Truth About Cancer: Don’t Try to Cure It. Just Find It: Inside the Science of Early Detection” and written by Thomas Goetz (a deputy editor for Wired), outlines in large part the work of the Canary Foundation, an organization founded by Don Listwin from California to pursue the question of how we can find cancers at the earliest moment possible when the chances for cure are greatest.
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