Service May Reduce Cancer Risk

Week of July 27, 2009

A recent study of Department of Defense (DoD) and National Cancer Institute statistics shows that active-duty military personnel may have lower risks of developing certain kinds of cancer -- colorectal, lung and cervical -- compared with the general public. They also found that breast cancer among women and prostate cancer among men are more common in the military than in the general population. Testicular cancer appeared to affect both military and civilian populations equally. To read the full article about the study in the June issue of Cancer, Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention click here.