“Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention priority in these people."

MD Anderson study also finds individuals with certain genetic variations more vulnerable to dietary risk

Power washing old wooden decks, porches creates health hazards, study shows

The vast majority of the thousands of chemicals in our homes and workplaces have not been tested to determine if they cause cancer. That’s because today’s options are lacking. Rodent tests are too slow, and cell culture tests don’t replicate how cells interact in the body, so their relevance to cancer is limited. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have set out to change that.

Levels of radon, a known carcinigen, rising since 2004, around the time that drilling for a new type of natural gas well began.