Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life

Develop your anticancer strategy

Knowledge is power. Knowing your cancer risk is your best weapon against cancer. Co-published with the American Cancer Society, Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life will help you assess your risk based on your family history, genetics, and environment, and help you make a comprehensive action plan to lower your chances of getting cancer. With an anticancer strategy in place, you√ ll help to protect yourself against cancer and live a healthier, happier life.

Reduce Your Cancer Risk includes the most up-to-date information on:

• Personal risk assessment
• Lifestyle changes
• Preventive health strategies
• Genetic counseling
• Preventive anti-cancer medications

Barbara Boughton is an award-winning medical and health journalist and editor. Her articles on health and medicine have appeared in national publications such as ＂Consumer Reports,＂ ＂Alternative Medicine＂ magazine, and ＂Better Homes and Gardens.＂ A specialist in reporting about cancer, she has been a regular contributor to the journal ＂Lancet Oncology＂ and the health clinician website Medscape.com, and has been a contributing writer and editor for several magazines for cancer survivors, including ＂MAMM,＂ ＂In Touch,＂ and ＂Women and Cancer＂ magazines. Dr. Michael Stefanek, PhD, began his career with The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then served at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, as Chief of the Basic Biobehavioral Research Branch for almost a decade. Most recently, he was Vice President, Behavioral Research, and Director, Behavioral Research Center with the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia.