Medical Updates Impacting You - Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs)

January 21, 2010

Indoor Tanning: The Risks of Ultraviolet Rays

Tanning beds are more dangerous than previously understood. According to the FDA, teens are particularly vulnerable.

January 11, 2010

The Best Screening - Talk with Doc

Great article about the best medical screening for you. Bottom line - the most important thing you can do is talk to your doc about your family history.

December 15, 2009

Another Gap...the Sex Knowledge Gap

You know about the shocking gap in cancer survival rates for teens and young adults, but did you know there is a "sex gap" too...?

December 8, 2009

What’s the Big Deal About Actors Smoking in Movies?

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Dartmouth College were funded by the National Cancer Institute to find out. They studied almost 1300 Mexican-Americans teens over three years. It turns out that exposure to smoking scenes in movies was a stronger predictor of smoking experimentation than peer pressure.

December 8, 2009

Cancer Rates in the U.S. Improve

Cancer rates are on the decline in the US. Whew! Good news but for 15-40-year-olds - cancer survival rates are barely improving! Please...Check Yourself...see your health care provider and check back in if you notice any change in your normal health that lasts more than a week. Changes can include a change in mole or new skin lesion, any abnormal discharge, pain or swelling in one leg, shoulder, etc but not the other, a bump or buldge anywhere, swollen lymph nodes or abnormally fatigue. If this applies to you - call your doctor!

November 23, 2009

Cervical Cancer Screening Update

Women’s health and cancer screenings continue to make headlines. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists now recommends

November 18, 2009

Mammography Guidelines Debate

Just seven years after recommending that women have mammograms every one to two years starting at age 40, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force changed its recommendation.

August 17, 2009

Foundation For Young Adult Cancer Patients

Survival rates for children and older adults with cancer have soared 30 percent in the past two decades, during which there has been no improvement in survival rates for adolescents and young adults with cancer.