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Cancer Prevention- Be On the Safe Side
What is Prevention? What do you understand by the word prevention? Well, prevention today refers mainly to lowering the risk of disease. This is because common diseases in developed nations today are chronic diseases- like heart diseases and cancer. And chronic diseases tend to be caused by a combination of many different factors, some of which are under a person s control, some of which are out of person s control, and some of which are yet to be known. With so many factors offering a risk - it is only a portion of which can actually be changed - so the realistic goal of prevention becomes low ..

Cancer Preventive Measures
Cancer is a very deadly disease. This disease is one of the most deadly in terms of numbers killed year in and out. According to statistics one in three people will be affected by cancer. And one in four people will die of cancer. However cancer could be prevented in certain situations. The first step in cancer prevention is learning what causes it and the risk factors involved. Avoiding these risk factors can help a person reduce the likelihood of having cancers. Here are the following risk factors that a person can avoid to prevent cancer. 1. Tobacco – 30% of all cancer deaths in the Uni ..