This is definitely a step in the right direction, though I am waiting for it to be the first line of medical treatment, available even to people in reduced circumstances.  Those with limited incomes are generally the ones whose diet most needs to change, since the lure of McDonald's cheap food is irresistible costing, as it often does, less than a meal cooked at home.

What is the problem?  "The National Institutes of Health requires medical centers that are designated comprehensive cancer centers, and eligible for its grants and contracts, to have a prevention component. The institute devoted $500 million, or 12 percent of its budget, to cancer prevention and control. But, some ask, how can an honest message be communicated to the public about what can be done?"

The Centers offer mostly research, since being on the cutting edge of Cancer research is what it is all about.  But they also offer screening.  Here is what one Doctor has to say about that:

"Not all cancers will spread and kill, and sometimes the outcome is the same whether a cancer is found earlier or later. But with screening, doctors treat any tumors they find because they cannot tell which are worrisome and which are not."

In the end, screening, far from preventing cancer, actually leads to more cancer patients, Dr. Kramer noted, by finding both those whose cancers would have been deadly and those whose cancers would never have been a problem because they would have remained small and never spread, or would even have disappeared.

"People often talk about mammograms to prevent breast cancer when what it's done is to increase, not decrease, the incidence of breast cancer," Dr. Kramer said." (Lynn: my emphasis)

What I would like to see is an increased partnership between alternative and allopathic medicine, because at the moment the dietary advice, while a step forward, is not comprehensive of natural therapies, and no alternative remedies are suggested.