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Commentary: eight ways to prevent cancer: a framework for effective prevention messages for the public

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Research over the past 40 years has convincingly shown that lifestyle factors play a huge role in cancer incidence and mortality. The public, though, can often discount the preventability of cancer. That health information on the Internet is a vast and often scientifically suspect commodity makes promoting important and sound cancer prevention messages to the public even more difficult. To help address these issues and improve the public’s knowledge of, and attitudes toward, cancer prevention, there need to be concerted efforts to create evidence-based, user-friendly information about behaviors that could greatly reduce overall cancer risk. Toward this end, we condensed the current scientific evidence on the topic into eight key behaviors. While not an end in themselves, “Eight Ways to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer” forms an evidence-based and targeted framework that supports broader cancer prevention efforts.

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Dart, H., Wolin, K.Y. & Colditz, G.A. Commentary: eight ways to prevent cancer: a framework for effective prevention messages for the public. Cancer Causes Control 23, 601–608 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-012-9924-y

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