THURSDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- The first national survey in a generation to look at Americans' feelings on cancer prevention finds widespread confusion about the disease.
"We found that almost half of the American public believes that 'it seems that almost everything causes cancer,' about one in four feel there's not much one can do to lower the chances of getting cancer, and three out of four felt there were so many recommendations, it's hard to know which ones to follow," said study author Jeff Niederdeppe, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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