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During his presidency, former U.S. President Barack Obama officially proclaimed April as National Cancer Control Month to “move forward in the fight against cancer” by improving the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer.

Individuals can reduce their risk for cancer through a variety of lifestyle changes, in addition to undergoing recommended screenings.

In conjunction with National Cancer Control Month, HemOnc Today presents five cancer prevention updates you may discuss with your patients to reduce their risk for cancer.

• In 2011, the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse and the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products initiated the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) study as a joint effort to assess tobacco use trends in the United States. HemOnc Today spoke with Andrew Hyland, PhD, principal investigator of PATH, and Karin A. Kasza, MA, senior research specialist in the department of health behavior at Roswell Park Cancer Institute, about the preliminary findings and how they hope this research will inform future efforts to further reduce tobacco use in the United States. Read more.
• To reduce melanoma incidence, prevention efforts can be shifted from indoor tanning efforts to focus on outdoor sun protection in average-risk adults. Read more.
• A telephone-based counseling intervention following lung cancer screening increased cessation rates among current smokers, in which more than four times as many study participants who received the telephone-based intervention stopped smoking at 3-month follow-up. Read more.
• Researchers associated high-quality dietary patterns defined by four different diet quality indexes with a reduced risk for colorectal cancer across a number of racial and ethnic groups. Read more.
• Since the HPV vaccine was first introduced in the United States in 2006, researchers observed a 65% decline in the overall prevalence of vaccine-type HPV among women aged 18 to 24 years in 2014. Read more.