By the time a woman feels something, say if it is cancer, it has been there for years. You're not going to get all early cancers with mammography, but it's the best tool we have to date.

We need to get cancer patients near treatment and keep them near their families at the same time,

We are moving to a time where we are no longer going to treat cancer patients based on just what kind of cancer they have.

This year, for the first time, there was a drop in the reported number of actual cancer deaths in the U.S.. Although we are winning the 'war on cancer,' there is a remarkable opportunity to save hundreds of thousands of lives and to reduce suffering from this disease with lifestyle changes and an increased use of proven screening strategies.

Colorectal cancer is a lethal disease, but certainly a preventable one if screenings are done at the appropriate time and intervals. Education and screening are the keys to preventing colorectal cancer.

This is an area known as Cancer Alley, and there's a good reason for that. Contaminants were already a problem (in local waters).