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  What do we eat?

  By Mary Clare Jalonick  |  May 20, 2013

  Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

• Most cancer patients, survivors want to keep working

  By Amanda McGrory-Dixon  |  March 7, 2013

  Almost 80 percent of cancer patients and survivors report that they want to keep working, though nearly as many respondents have trouble finding a work-life balance.

• Study sees prostate cancer treatment side effects

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  January 31, 2013

  A new study shows how important it is for men to carefully consider treatments for early-stage prostate cancer. Fifteen years after surgery or radiation treatment, nearly all of the older men in the study had some problems having sex.

• Lung cancer scans backed for older, heavy smokers

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  January 11, 2013

  After decades of qualms about lung cancer screening, the American Cancer Society says there now is enough evidence to recommend it, but only for current and former heavy smokers ages 55 to 74 and after a frank talk about risks and benefits.

• Death rates from cancer still inching down

  By Lauran Neergaard  |  January 8, 2013

  Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.

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  Multivitamins may lower cancer risk in men

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  October 17, 2012

  America's favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doctors who took them for more than a decade, the first large study to test these pills has found.

• Cancer survivor rate growing

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  June 14, 2012

  The number of Americans alive with a history of cancer—a number now sitting at 13.7 million—will jump to almost 18 million by 2022, finds a new report from the American Cancer Society in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute.

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  Study finds java drinkers live longer

  By Marilynn Marchione  |  May 17, 2012

  One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf...

• Feds require consumer-friendly health plan briefs

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  February 9, 2012

  Don't have the slightest clue what your health insurance covers? The Obama administration says that's going to change. Officials announced Thursday that starting later this year private health plans will have to provide consumers with a user-friendly summary of what's covered, along with key cost details such as copays and...

• Cancer screening rates below target

  By Kathryn Mayer  |  January 30, 2012

  Not enough Americans are following government recommendations for getting regular cancer screenings, the CDC says.