While there is no absolute way to prevent cancer, you can be proactive in reducing certain risk factors. It is much easier to treat a cancer while it is still small and has not spread far, so visit your doctor regularly.
Exercising regularly and eating well is good for your entire body, helping to control conditions such as high blood pressure and cholesterol, as well as providing a source of natural stress relief. In addition to a healthier body, caring for your health may help reduce the risk of developing cancer.
Caring for yourself and being familiar with your body will help you notice unusual lumps or changes that your doctor may need to look at. Report any unusual changes in your health to your doctor, and get screened regularly.
For most cancers, risk factors generally lead to damage to the genes, such as carcinogens and certain chemicals. The brain is well protected from many of these common risk factors.
At this time, it is not known what causes brain tumors except for exposure to radiation. There is currently no known way to protect against brain tumors.
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We welcome patients and family from all over the world, but mostly those living within a hundred-mile radius of Anderson and Greenville, South Carolina.
AnMed Health & Blue Ridge Radiation Oncology are charter members of Levine Cancer Institute's cancer care network. Carolinas HealthCare System's Levine Cancer Institute aims to build "a cancer institute without walls," by increasing access to specialist consultations, research offerings, program offerings and services to member institutions throughout the Carolinas.