Cancer Prevention Inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is a clear risk factor for cancer, finds a new Lancet study. Environmental and lifestyle factors accounted for 35 percent of worldwide cancer deaths in 2001. Other risk factors that may be
within our control include smoking, alcohol use, being overweight or obese, air pollution, lack of exercise, indoor smoke from use of solid fuels, second hand smoke, contaminated injections in medical settings and certain medication/s, i.e., hormone replacement treatment. “Primary prevention through lifestyle and environmental interventions remains the main path for reducing and, possibly, preventing, the global cancer burden,” says author in this study.” “Therapeutic interventions have enjoyed less success in reducing deaths from most cancers,” add Harvard researchers.
Certain lifestyle changes impact specific cancers. “There is a correlation between obesity and breast and ovarian cancers,” explains the director of supportive oncology at the Don Monte Cancer Center in Manhasset, New York. And not eating enough fruits and vegetables has been linked to colon, esophageal, lung and stomach cancer. Did You Know?
The U. S. incidence of cancer increased from 9.4 million to 9.6 million between 1997 and 2004. At this rate, one in every two mean and one in every three women in America will get his disease. There is a bright side. In many cases cancer is preventable with the proper lifestyle changes. | 
