Nearly 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the UK every year could be avoided through lifestyle changes, according to new research.
Smoking is the biggest avoidable cause of cancer, followed by excess weight, overexposure to UV radiation from the sun and sunbeds, drinking alcohol, eating too little fibre, and outdoor air pollution, a study by Cancer Research UK found.
Experts presenting the data warned that with smoking rates continuing to go down and rates of obesity on the increase, obesity could overtake smoking as the biggest killer.
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a family member who has stage 4 cancer had to go hospital today. SFD ambulance picked her up and took her. When one of them walked into their apartment he exclaimed, "who's smoking in here? no wonder they have cancer"!
Totally inappropriate. You don't say that crap to a patient. Her husband is 79 and said he felt like hitting the kid with his cane. What a shit hole salisbury has become.
And Carnivora.
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