| Get the latest figures and trends on 11 cancer types, alcohol, nutrition, UV exposure, tobacco use, and occupational exposures.
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| View or download PDF presentations on risk factors, prevention, and early detection for major cancer sites and other topics.
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These documents offer easy reading health information for those with low health literacy or limited English proficiency. All documents are available in English and numerous other languages.
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| Current, reliable information about the tobacco pandemic is available in Tobacco Control Country Profiles 2003, a report that describes the situation in 196 countries and territories around the world.
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| The Cancer Statistics Presentation 2009 presents extensive statistical data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival.
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| This quick reference pocket card has information on pain management principles; adjuvant analgesic medications, their uses, starting dose, and dose range; how to switch from one opioid pain medication to another; opioid equivalent doses (in chart form); commonly used non-opioid analgesics; and management strategies of opioid side effects .
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Physicians play a vital role in their patients' decisions to get tested for colon cancer. If patients don't hear about screening from their doctor, they may not think they need it. Here you will find printable, easy-to-follow screening guidelines and other patient education materials to distribute in your office or clinic.
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The American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that men have a chance to make an informed decision with their health care provider about whether to be screened for prostate cancer. These tools and resources will help you explain the pros and cons of prostate cancer testing to your patients so they can make an informed decision about whether to be tested.
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| The American Journal of Nursing releases consensus report to improve care for long-term cancer survivors.
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| Specific goals are described here to speed new medical treatments for childhood cancers and to help ease the difficult psychosocial, emotional, and economic effects of cancer on children and their families.
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| The report makes the case for urgent action in countries all over the world to halt and turn back the growing threat of chronic diseases, and dispels the long-held misunderstandings about heart disease, stroke, cancer and other chronic diseases.
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