According to the results of a recent telephone survey conducted by the American Cancer Society, Americans are very confused about what causes cancer and what a cancer diagnosis really means.
The survey included 12 inaccurate or unlikely statements about cancer risk, risk factors, and prevention, some of which frequently show up in email inboxes, and asked participants to identify the statements as true or false. While more than two-thirds of the participants were able to identify seven of the 12 statements as false, five of the 12 statements were endorsed as true by at least a quarter of the respondents, and …read more