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Cancer: a preventable disease
Each day may even help to reduce their personal risk of cancer. Although not possible to prevent any form of cancer, as about five percent have genetic causes. But 90 percent of cancers are environmentally determined, of which apply to each third tobacco smoke and poor diet as a trigger.
In the fight against cancer is prevention in the foreground, with about half of all cancer patient dies. Overall, the figures are frightening: Every year eleven million people worldwide suffer from cancer.
In Germany makes a diagnosis each year, about 400,000 people. Cancer is thus still number two cause of death after cardiovascular diseases.
The new report by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF report), based on the analysis of some 7,000 cancer studies, confirms and underlines the importance of prevention.