Tag: "prevention"
Smoking and Obesity Make Half of All Cancers Preventable
According to a new study from our partners at Washington University School of Medicine, more than half of all cancer diagnoses are due to smoking and obesity and are preventable. The study’s lead author, the Siteman Cancer Center’s Graham Colditz, MD, was cited in a Washington University news release with “data demonstrating that smoking alone is [...]
Can Diet and Exercise Prevent a Breast Cancer Recurrence?
After everything is finished with a breast cancer treatment, preventing a recurrence becomes a focus. Patients are prescribed medications to reduce chances it doesn’t happen again. There’s another idea in mind that may hold off a recurrence: losing weight. Cancer prevention researcher Kate Wolin, ScD, from our Siteman Cancer Center has a new study enrolling women with [...]
Lean Principles Help Reduce Falls, Improve Patient Safety at Barnes-Jewish
About a week ago, I participated in a three-day Lean event focused on patient fall prevention. Prior to the event, BJC HealthCare’s Center for Clinical Excellence had identified the units within our 13-hospital system that had the highest number of falls and these included three oncology units at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Because of this, intervention teams [...]
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