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)
• Aspartame and Cancer (Reviewed: 09/12/2006)
• Calcium and Cancer Prevention: Strengths and Limits of the Evidence (Posted 3/11/09)
• Cutting Calories to Prevent Cancer (Posted 7/14/09, NCI Cancer Bulletin )
• DCP Nutritional Sciences Research Group
• DHHS Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005
• Diet Has No Effect on Recurrence of Colorectal Polyps (Reviewed: 06/27/2006)
• 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 May 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 8/11/09, 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: 9/23/09)
• Zinc Deficiency Linked to Increased Risk of Less-Common Form of Esophageal Cancer (Posted: 02/15/2005)