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'Prevent cancer before it starts': new WHO study maps risks
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'Prevent cancer before it starts': new WHO study maps risks

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A new WHO study suggests more than 7 million cases of cancer in 2022 were preventable. Nearly 40% of all the cases that year were caused by modifiable risk factors — behavioral and environmental factors we can change.

"We now have the information to prevent cancer before it starts," said Isabelle Soerjomataram, a cancer surveillance specialist at the International Agency on Research on Cancer (IARC). Speaking to the press last week, Soerjomataram and her colleague... [5737 chars]

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