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Preventing cancer. Saving lives

At World Cancer Research Fund, we examine how diet, weight and physical activity can affect your risk of developing and surviving cancer. Our work helps people to live longer, happier and healthier lives – free from the devastating effects of cancer.

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Try our quiz on 1990s food trends
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Try our quiz on 1990s food trends

What were those delicious toastable pastry snacks called? What curry-based song was released for the World Cup in 1998?

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How a lifetime of data provides lifelines for cancer research
Prof Janet Cade and colleagues celebrate 30 years of the Women's Cohort Study

How a lifetime of data provides lifelines for cancer research

Three decades ago, we funded an exciting project on women’s health. 30 years later, scientists and women from the study gathered to look back on what the UK Women’s Cohort Study has achieved

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What helps bowel cancer survivors eat healthily and stay active after treatment?
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What helps bowel cancer survivors eat healthily and stay active after treatment?

Research in the Netherlands is providing a better picture of the challenges people with bowel cancer face, and what can motivate them towards better health

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Research grant applications are now open!

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Try a new recipe
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Try a new recipe

We have hundreds of healthy dishes to try for all different tastes

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Healthy recipe books

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Could your lifestyle be making you attractive to cancer? Take our test today

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Cook Through Cancer
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Cook Through Cancer

Free online cookery classes for people affected by cancer

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Our prescription to help you reduce your risk of cancer

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Our research and policy work

Our Global Cancer Update Programme
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Our Global Cancer Update Programme

Our flagship research work has transformed the field of cancer prevention

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Our grant programmes

We fund innovative and original research globally

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Influencing policy

We want cancer prevention to be a top priority for governments

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Preventing cancer. Saving lives

While society continues to search for a cure, our prevention and survival work helps people to live longer, healthier lives – free from the devastating effects of cancer.