PREVENTING CANCER

The lifestyle choices you make could dramatically affect your risk of cancer

Preventable cancers

You can reduce your risk of many types of cancer by making simple changes to your lifestyle

The evidence

Separate myth from reality

Do you know the lifestyle factors that are increasing your risk of cancer?

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How to protect yourself

The latest scientific research on how to reduce your risk of cancer

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How common are they?

Full details on each type and what you can do to reduce your risk

What's your risk?

Making breakthroughs

Every day, our scientists make discoveries about preventing cancer

Our scientists and their work

Cancer statistics

Latest cancer rates, including incidence, mortality and preventability, for the UK

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