Giving up smoking, eating better and exercising can improve overall health — these simple steps can also make it less likely someone will develop cancer. It is a message Dr. Martha Tingen, associate director of the Georgia Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention, Control & Population Health Program, wants all Georgians to hear.
Each member of the Cancer Prevention, Control & Population Health Program reaches out to community organizations, schools and other civic groups to promote the importance of prevention, early detection and regular screenings and particularly in addressing can health disparities and health equity. Community outreach and engagement is the foundation of the program and the team consults with community leaders to stay current with the populations they represent and to maintain open channels of communication on a variety of topics.
As part of our research in this area, the Georgia Cancer Center has partnered with Augusta Mayor Hardie Davis for the Augusta Fit Families program through the United States Conference of Mayors and and the American Beverage Foundation for a healthy America for childhood obesity prevention.
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Nearly all of the evidence linking obesity to cancer risk comes from large cohort studies, a type of observational study. However, data from observational studies can be difficult to interpret and cannot definitively establish that obesity causes cancer. Despite the limitations of the study designs, there is consistent evidence that higher amounts of body fat are associated with increased risks of a number of cancers.
In the United States, high-risk HPVs cause 3% of all cancers in women and 2% of all cancers in men. There are about 44,000 new cases of cancer in parts of the body where HPV is often found, and HPV is estimated to cause about 34,000 cancers each year, according to the latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.
Depression is a comorbid disabling syndrome that affects approximately 15% to 25% of cancer patients. The mental health condition is believed to affect men and women with cancer equally, and gender-related differences in prevalence and severity have not been adequately evaluated.
If you’ve ever heard a Northerner and a Southerner discuss winter weather, you know that cold can be a relative term. But when Dr. Roni Bollag, director of the Georgia Cancer Biorepository, uses the term, he means it. The freezers he oversees start cold and get colder: blood derivatives are stored at -80 degrees Celsius, […]
When Dr. Marlo Vernon, now an assistant professor in the cancer prevention, control and population health program at the Georgia Cancer Center, was looking for innovation challenges to share with her Innovation and Technology in Health Care students, she ran across the Remote Pregnancy Monitoring Grand Challenge, a technology-based competition conducted by the Health Resources […]
Layman receives top reproductive medicine researcher award Dr. Lawrence C. Layman, chief of the Section of Reproductive Endocrinology, Infertility and Genetics in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University, is the 2019 recipient of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s Distinguished Researcher Award. Layman, Robert B. Greenblatt, […]
It seems like you can’t turn on the TV without hearing about the dangers of vaping, and for good reason. The risks of using electronic cigarettes include everything from burns, explosions and accidental poisonings to the newly classified vaping-specific lung disorder called EVALI, e-cigarette or vaping product use-associated lung injury. As of February 4, 2020, […]
