What other effective ways can we put in place to avert cancer development.

 The portion of time in an individual's life span that most affect their subsequent risk of developing cancer arises early in life. We do have a restricted ability to prevent cancer. It can happen in spite of an individual's best efforts to follow screening recommendations, eat well, and stay at a healthy weight.

 Cancer prevention should: 


#1: Start early as possible and continue forever. 


Cancer can result from (get more information through these links) http://www.canceradvocacymovement.com/2019/11/behavioural-circumstances-that-favours.html    and  http://www.canceradvocacymovement.com/2019/11/environmental-carcinogens.html

A starting point of healthy eating starts with eating home-made meals. Parents and elderly ones should educate their children and younger ones on how healthy it is consuming organic foods and further show their responsibility to keeping them safe by limiting the availability of processed foods, fried foods, etc.


#2: Know if screening is right for you.


As a healthy individual, cancer is likely not a structured concern for you. But regular screening exams can be used to find cancer early, and it increases the chances of successful treatment. Screening principles tend to be fairly clear on who should be screened and when to start, but they are not always clear on when screening should stop. Cancer screening is a decision that must be made between an individual and their doctor, based on their general health, personal cancer risk, and personal choices. Not all types of cancer have effective screening methods.


Cancer screening has some risks associated with it. Screening tests help doctors find cancer at an earlier, more treatable stage and it may help improve survival. But cancer screening also has several risks, which includes;


  •  False positives: Sometimes a screening test will suggest that a person has cancer when they do not.


  • Doctors Increased testing: They may run additional tests that a person may not need because of overdiagnosis and false positives. These tests can be physically invasive, costly, and can cause unnecessary stress and worries.


  • False reassurance: Sometimes a screening test will suggest that a person does not have cancer when they do. As a result, a person may not get the treatment he or she is supposed to have. 


  • Overdiagnosis: Some tests may find slow-growing cancers that would not have caused any harm during an individual's lifetime. As a result, some people may receive potentially harmful, painful, stressful, and/or expensive treatments that they did not need. 


For individuals diagnosed with cancer, they will begin experiencing pain. Treated pains help the patients and give them relieve but untreated pain makes other aspects of cancer symptoms worse. For example; Fatigue, Weakness, Shortness of breath, Nausea, Constipation, Sleep disturbances, Depression, Anxiety, etc.

The pain comes about from the tumor itself, the cancer treatment, or causes unrelated to cancer. A good pain treatment scheme will take care of pain from all causes.

 People with cancer can still have pain from other causes. These include migraines, arthritis, or chronic low back pain. The treatment plan a health care team develops with the individual should include these kinds of pain. Any pain decreases the individual's quality of life. 


Screening practices are also based on certain aspects such as :


-Which type of cancer people should be screened for?

-Which tests should be used to screen for a particular type of cancer?

-What age screening should begin and end?

-How often screening tests should be done?

-What happens if the screening shows positive results?


#3: Daily choices.


We make choices every day that can affect our risks of developing cancer. It is important we get regular exercise, avoid/put an end to tobacco use, limit alcohol consumption and protect ourselves from ultraviolet rays.


#4: Support cancer prevention programs.


In addition to doing what we can to lower our risk of developing cancer, we need to work together to support programs so as to help reduce exposures to carcinogens. Public awareness campaigns are crucial to teaching people worldwide about the various ways to reduce the global risks of developing cancer.

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