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Lifestyle changes could cut cancers by a third

4 March 2009

A HEALTHY lifestyle may be even more important than you think. The most comprehensive report on cancer prevention yet finds that healthy eating and exercise could prevent more than a third of common cancers in developed countries, and more than a quarter in developing countries.

“People think that somehow cancer comes from heaven, or Darwin, or from their parents’ genes, but that’s not always the case,” says Michael Marmot, chair of the panel that produced the . These figures do not take into account cancers caused by smoking, which alone causes about a third of…

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