About the screening articles Despite the impressive strides made in cancer screening in recent years, the process is not flawless. Project Healthy Living offers free and low-cost health screenings, including some for cancer, throughout southeastern Michigan through early May. Cancer is something people want to put out of their mind, especially people who do not have a family history of it or ones without risk factors. But a lack of risk factors does not mean immunity from the disease. Most cancer does not have a clear family risk pattern.
Most cancers occur sporadically.
If you have no known risk factors, that means you are at average risk. It takes courage not to be screened because you are taking an unnecessary risk with your life. We know that one-third of deaths from breast and colon cancers are avoidable with to screening. With cervical, colon and breast, we have very clear evidence that screening saves lives. We recently received some good news.