About a week ago I wrote in this space about tobacco. I was coming off the President’s Cancer Panel meeting in Mississippi on tobacco and encouraged about a bipartisan group of congressional leaders reintroducing legislation to require FDA regulation of tobacco.

Over the last couple of days the debate on tobacco has heated back up. In reading this story and this story it strikes me that we are not trying hard enough. Tobacco is killing close to a half million people in the U.S. every year and every one of those deaths is…

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I just wanted to take a second to let you all know that I will be a guest on the Conan O’Brien Show tonight (12:30 ET, NBC) so make sure you tune-in.

LIVESTRONG,

Lance

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The Tour of California wrapped up yesterday with a big win for Team Discovery and I couldn’t be prouder of the guys and all the work they put in. As always the Paceline has you covered.

Kim Painter in today’s USA Today has a story about the decline in women receiving mammograms. As the title of the article points out that is a step “in the wrong direction.” We all understand how important early detection is to everyone and we must make sure we are all doing our personal duty – to make sure all of…

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I just wanted to give everyone a quick update. I was in Phoenix last night giving a speech for my longtime sponsor AMD. The speech focused on the role technology could play in the health care system. The rest of this week I will be at the Tour of California cheering on Team Discovery Channel.

Couple of quick things:

Make sure you tune in to PBS this week for NOW. Host David Brancaccio will be discussing HPV and the issues surrounding vaccination.

If you are looking for a good read check out Sean Swarner’s…

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I’ve been talking a lot about the need for scientific innovation and medical breakthroughs in the fight against cancer. It has become a more prominent issue lately with the budget cuts at NCI and I think it is a good sign that we are now discussing it.

There is still so much we don’t know about what causes cancer or how to stop it.

That is not the case with cervical cancer. We now know that human papillomavirus (HPV) which causes a sexually transmitted infection that affects at least half of all sexually active men and women ?¢‚Ǩ‚Äú causes most…

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