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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-is-your-cancer-risk/">World Cancer Day: What’s Your Risk?</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted February 9, 2008 at 06:00 PM by Alexandra M. Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">World Cancer Day was Monday, February 4th. Did you spend time thinking about your own health, and if certain habits or behaviors increase your risk? If you didn’t, you can relax, because someone is doing the investigating for you. Professor Bernard Stewart of the University of New South Wales in Australia designed a 5-point system that looks at certain factors and assesses their likelihood of causing cancer. The scale ranges from proven and likely, to inferred, unknown or unlikely. “Our tool will help establish if the level of risk is high, say on a par with smoking, or unlikely such as using deodorants, artificial sweeteners, drinking coffee,” Stewart said. How do certain fluids stack up? People seem skeptical about water that has chemicals. Is that founded? According to Stewart’s chart, drinking alcohol predisposes you to a high…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-is-your-cancer-risk/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-is-your-cancer-risk/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-is-your-cancer-risk/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/what-is-your-cancer-risk/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>