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Preventing cancer

There are proven ways for people to make a cancer diagnosis less likely – the lifestyle choices you make could dramatically affect your risk.

Experts now believe that up to 40% of cancer cases are preventable, if people didn’t smoke, avoided the sun, avoided alcohol, ate a healthy diet, maintained a healthy body weight and stayed physically active.

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Our Recommendations

We’ve developed 10 Cancer Prevention Recommendations over many years of research – find out how you could alter your risk

What are they?
Cancer health check
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Cancer health check

Is your lifestyle making you attractive to cancer?

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Common questions about cancer
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Common questions about cancer

What cancer is, how it spreads and what we can all do to prevent it.

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Order guides and cookbooks
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Order guides and cookbooks

We have a range of free health guides and recipe booklets for you

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What we know about preventing cancer

Understand the evidence and how we go about funding research to continue learning how we can affect the risk of cancer

Our years of research
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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.