Lifestyle and Prevention

Cancer Causes and Risk Factors

• NCI Cancer Causes and Risk Factors Webpage
  Doctors often cannot explain why one person develops cancer and another does not. But research shows that certain risk factors increase the chance that a person will develop cancer. Many of these risk factors can be avoided. Others, such as family history, cannot be avoided. People can help protect themselves by staying away from known risk factors whenever possible.
• NCI Tobacco and Cancer Webpage
  Tobacco is one of the strongest cancer-causing agents. Tobacco use is associated with a number of different cancers, including lung cancer, as well as with chronic lung diseases and cardiovascular diseases.

Diet and Nutrition

• Acrylamide in Food and Cancer Risk
  (Reviewed 07/29/2008)
• Antioxidants and Cancer Prevention
  (Updated 07/28/2004)
• Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer
  (Reviewed 08/05/2009)
• Artificial Sweeteners and Cancer
  (Reviewed 08/05/2009)
• Calcium and Cancer Prevention Strengths and Limits of the Evidence
  (Posted 03/11/09)
• Cutting Calories to Prevent Cancer
  (Posted 07/14/09, NCI Cancer Bulletin )
• DCP Nutritional Sciences Research Group
• DHHS Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005
• Fluoridated Water Questions and Answers
  (Reviewed 06/29/2005)
• Followup to Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention (ATBC) Trial
  (Posted 07/22/2003)
• Garlic and Cancer Prevention
  (Posted 01/22/2008)
• Heterocyclic Amines in Cooked Meats
  (Reviewed 09/15/2004)
• Low-fat Diet May Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence
  (Posted 05/17/2005, NCI Cancer Bulletin)
• Obesity and Cancer Questions and Answers
  (Reviewed 03/16/2004)
• Questions and Answers The Polyp Prevention Trial and the Wheat Bran Fiber Study
  (Posted 04/19/2000)
• Red Wine and Cancer Prevention
  (Posted 11/27/2002)
• Review Finds No Firm Evidence that Green Tea Prevents Cancer
  (Posted 08/11/09, NCI Cancer Bulletin )
• Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) Questions and Answers
  (Reviewed 06/13/2005)
• Tea and Cancer Prevention
  (Posted 12/06/2002)
• Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention Strengths and Limits of the Evidence
  (Posted 09/23/2009)
• Zinc Deficiency Linked to Increased Risk of Less-Common Form of Esophageal Cancer
  (Posted 02/15/2005)

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