Overview
Co-published with the American Cancer Society, Reduce Your Cancer Risk: Twelve Steps to a Healthier Life provides comprehensive information about how to reduce cancer risk organized around a 12-step action plan. The book takes the reader from how to assess one's cancer risk on to the latest cutting edge research on lifestyle changes that can minimize an individual's risk factors. Reduce Your Cancer Risk separates fact from fiction about cancer.Author Biography
Barbara Boughton is an award-winning medical and health journalist and editor. Her articles on health and medicine have appeared in national publications such as Consumer Reports, Alternative Medicine magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens. A specialist in reporting about cancer, she has been a regular contributor to the journal Lancet Oncology and the health clinician website Medscape.com, and has been a contributing writer and editor for several magazines for cancer survivors, including MAMM, In Touch, and Women and Cancer magazines. Dr. Michael Stefanek, PhD, began his career with The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then served at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, as Chief of the Basic Biobehavioral Research Branch for almost a decade. Most recently, he was Vice President, Behavioral Research, and Director, Behavioral Research Center with the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia.
