When Scottish scientists examined data for 29,555 women born between 1988 and mid-1996, they found zero cases of invasive cervical cancer in those who got human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines at 12 or 13 years of age (unlike those who got no vaccines).
When it comes to food and supplements, confusion abounds. One reason: Some ideas catch on and linger, despite iffy evidence or, worse yet, studies that prove them flat-out wrong. Here’s a handful of claims to doubt.
“Almost everybody knows somebody who has had skin cancer,” says Vishal Anil Patel, director of the cutaneous oncology program at the George Washington University Cancer Center. Though most of those cancers aren’t dangerous, some can be deadly. Here’s what to know...and how to protect yourself.