Outsmarting cancer risk reduction and the power of prevention
A comprehensive guide to understanding and preventing cancer by addressing its root causes. Outsmarting Cancer reframes one of the most pressing medical challenges of our time: how to prevent cancer. In this timely and accessible book, physician and medical researcher Adam Barsouk, MD, presents a sw...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2026.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins Press health book.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Why us? Cancer risk and prevention
- What goes around : viruses, bacteria, and other microbe
- You are what you eat : foods and toxins
- The gift of living well : diet, exercise, and obesity
- On and off the clock : occupational exposures, pollution, and plastic
- Infinite reproduction : sex and cancer
- Virtue and vice : smoking, vaping, alcohol, and other drugs
- All the rays we cannot see : UV light and radiation
- In their genes : hereditary cancer risk
- Burning questions : inflammation, the microbiome, and cancer
- To prevent the recurrence of misery : cancer relapse and screening
- Some are more equal : cancer disparities and health care reform
- The art of living and dying well : palliative and end-of-life care
- Conclusion.
