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Daily Cancer Risk Fact: Men

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Men and Cancer23. Men

True or false: Men can – and do – get breast cancer.

True. Breast cancer in men accounts for about 1 percent of all breast cancers and about 0.2 percent of all cancers in men. There will be about 2,190 new cases of male breast cancer in 2012, compared with 229,000 cases in women.

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Daily Cancer Risk Fact: Young Adults

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Young Adults and Cancer22. Young Adults

True or false: People under 40 don’t need to worry about cancer.

False. Every year, 70,000 people between the ages of 15 and 39 (young adults) are diagnosed with cancer. Unfortunately, despite the many advances in cancer care, survival rates in this group have not changed in 30 years.

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Daily Cancer Risk Fact: Sugar

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Sugar21. Sugar

True or false: Eating sugar causes cancer or ‘feeds’ an already existing cancer.

False. A number of recent studies have not shown any relationship between a person’s cancer risk and a person’s sugar consumption.

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Join us every day this month for a special project between Philly.com/health and OncoLink. Throughout the month of April, What’s My Risk? will provide a daily fact you may not know about your risk of getting cancer.

What’s My Risk? is a comprehensive program designed to help the user learn about factors that determine their personal risk of many types of cancer and what they can do to decrease that risk. Find out more about Cancer Risk and Prevention.

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