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Anything that raises the chance of developing a cancer: smoking, alcohol, obesity, sunlight, certain infections, inherited genes, age. Around 40% of cancers in high-income countries are attributable to modifiable factors, so having a risk factor does not mean getting cancer, and the majority of cancers cannot be pinned on a modifiable one.
Around 40% of cancers in high-income countries are attributable to modifiable factors, tobacco alone causing about a fifth of cancer deaths, followed by excess weight, alcohol, infections (HPV, hepatitis B and C, H. pylori), ultraviolet light, and inactivity; the IARC classifies agents by the strength of evidence that they cause cancer in humans. Non-modifiable factors include age (the biggest), sex, inherited mutations, and family history. Risk factors drive prevention (vaccination, smoking cessation, alcohol policy), define who is offered screening (heavy smokers for lung CT, BRCA carriers for MRI), and, through the mutational signatures they leave, can sometimes be read directly from a tumour's DNA.
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Shares Obesity-related cancers (IARC list of 13), Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers.
Shares Inflammation, Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, HPV & HBV vaccination.
Shares Hereditary cancer syndromes, Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers.
Shares Alcohol-attributable cancer, Screening.
Shares Obesity-related cancers (IARC list of 13), Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers.
Shares Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, Diet, exercise and lifestyle roadmap: causes established → interventions that disappointed → exercise proven as treatment, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers.
Shares Chemoprevention & risk-reducing surgery, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, HPV & HBV vaccination.