Cancer prevention, selected facts and figures, a brief overview

1. Cancer Prevention

2. Top 5 cancer risk factors (~42% of cancers preventable):
Smoking, excess body weight, alcohol use, UV exposure,
physical inactivity

5. Top 5 preventable
cancers by percent:
1) Cervix (~100%)
2) Kaposi’s (~100%)
3) Melanoma (~95%)
4) Anal (~88%)
5) Lung (~86%)
Top 5 preventable
cancers by number:
1) Lung (~185,000)
2) Melanoma (~75,000)
3) Colorectal (~77,000)
4) Breast (~68,000)
5) Oral/throat (~36,000)

6. AICR 30-day cancer
prevention checklist
 Preventcancer.aicr.org