We can prevent up to half of all cancers by lowering the risk factors.
Changing our lifestyles can dramatically reduce our chances of getting cancer: stopping smoking, being more physically active, eating healthier and reducing sun exposure. And if our exposure to cancer-causing agents like pollution and pesticides in our homes and other environments were reduced, we’d lower the risks even more.
What do we need to do?
- Canadians need to make healthier choices, and Canada needs more and better education and outreach programs to promote and support those choices
- Canada needs the right health and environment policies to reduce risks and increase protection.
- Canada needs a cancer-specific prevention strategy, as well as a broader prevention strategy that addresses all diseases that share common risk factors to cancer
Prevention resources/links
- Smoking cessation
- Physical activity
- Healthy eating
- Alcohol consumption
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Sun exposure
- Environment