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Advertisement for a healthy diet to possibly reduce cancer risk. An average 35% of human cancer mortality is attributed to the diet of the individual. [9] Studies have linked excessive consumption of red or processed meat to an increased risk of breast cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer, a phenomenon which could be due to the presence of carcinogens in meats cooked at high temperatures.
One of the most controllable factors in lowering cancer risk is your eating habits: Of the American Institute for Cancer Research’s 10 cancer prevention recommendations, six are based on diet.
Age is the biggest risk factor for breast cancer. The risk of getting breast cancer increases with age. A woman is more than 100 times more likely to develop breast cancer in her 60s than in her 20s. [4] The risk over a woman's lifetime is, according to one 2021 review, approximately "1.5% risk at age 40, 3% at age 50, and more than 4% at age ...
For breast cancer, there is a replicated trend for women with a more "prudent or healthy" diet, i.e. higher in fruits and vegetables, to have a lower risk of cancer. [18] Unhealthy dietary patterns are associated with a higher body mass index suggesting a potential mediating effect of obesity on cancer risk. [19]
Cancer DALYs attributable to 11 Level 2 risk factors globally in 2019. [129] Cancer prevention is defined as active measures to decrease cancer risk. [130] The vast majority of cancer cases are due to environmental risk factors. Many of these environmental factors are controllable lifestyle choices. Thus, cancer is generally preventable. [131]
Most cancer deaths caused by occupational risk factors occur in the developed world. [16] Job stress does not appear to be a significant factor at least in lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. [ 18 ]
The increased risk is believed to be primarily due to the same risk factors that produced the first cancer, such as the person's genetic profile, alcohol and tobacco use, obesity, and environmental exposures, and partly due, in some cases, to the treatment for the first cancer, which might have included mutagenic chemotherapeutic drugs or ...
Family history, age, gender and ethnicity are uncontrollable and can influence heart disease risk. The primary controllable risk factors include cholesterol levels, blood pressure and, for those ...