When It Comes To Cancer, Prevention Is Key To Saving Lives
Essence
9 hrs ago
Prevention is everything.
That was the message shared during "Beating The Odds Through Early Screening, Therapies & Life>Wellness House for ESSENCE Fest. Leading the important conversation was Doug E. Fresh, well-known human beatbox and health advocate. He spoke with the experts, Dr. Edith Peterson-Mitchell, Dr. Robert Winn, Kimberly Alexander and Winselow Tucker in order to inform the listening audience about the efforts necessary to beat the odds when dealing with a cancer diagnosis, and what can be done to avoid one all together.
When it comes to screening, why screening, bottom line is, when you look at African Americans, whether we're talking about today multiple myeloma...breast cancer, you could put prostate cancer, you could put lung cancer...the number one people dying from it? African Americans," said Dr. Winn.