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Quit smoking or you might get cancer. No doubt you've heard that message before. How about this one? Eat right and exercise to maintain weight and stay healthy. This information has been around a long time. But now, you might want to take it more seriously. That's because doctors at Mayo Clinic published a study of over 30-thousand postmenopausal women that showed women who make certain healthy lifestyle choices significantly reduced their risk of developing or dying from cancer.
Modern medicine has made amazing advances in the treatment of many cancers. Take prostate cancer, for example. If you catch it early, it's often curable. But once the cancer spreads to other parts of your body, it can be much harder to stop. That's why researchers at Mayo Clinic are studying how cancer cells move. They want to learn how cancer cells spread, or metastasize - in hopes of one day finding therapies to stop the progression of these deadly diseases.
Every year medical science takes leaps not steps. Now combine two excellent diagnostic techniques for finding cancer and you have an often life-saving test that's very precise. Doctors at Mayo Clinic are using two types of scans in one test. CT scans plus what's called a PET scan equals a more accurate diagnosis, and could save you from unnecessary biopsies or surgery.
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