Do you know someone with cancer? We'll bet that you do. We'll bet that you do because cancer strikes 3 out of every 4 families in the United States and kills about 500,000 men and women every year.
Most cancer victims die from cancer of the lung, breast, colon, or prostate. Breast cancer deaths have held steady over the past 30 years, but prostate cancer deaths have increased 9 percent, colon cancer deaths have increased 22 percent in men, and lung cancer deaths have increased a chocking 161 percent in men and horrifying 396 percent in women.
Those increases make cancer the nation's second most common cause of death. But what's causing this epidemic of neoplasmic proliferation?
Most of the time it's things we do to ourselves. We take a 3-inch paper-covered cylinder out of a pack, put one end in our mouths, and set the other end on fire--even when we know that 83 percent of all lung cancer is caused by smoking cigarettes.
Most of the time it's things we do to ourselves. We take a 3-inch paper-covered cylinder out of a pack, put one end in our mouths, and set the other end on fire--even when we know that 83 percent of all lung cancer is caused by smoking cigarettes.
Or we pull up to a fast-food drive-in, order a bacon double cheeseburger, large fries, and jumbo milkshake--even when we know that the risk of dying from breast cancer increases 40 percent for every extra 1,000 grams of fat we eat a month.
Or maybe for breakfast we eat the cute little even when we know that a low-fiver diet is a significant factor in the development of colon cancer.
