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Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
- Numerous
studies have linked nutritional factors (like obesity and dietary
intakes), with risk for primary cancers.
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Those most strongly associated with various nutritional and dietary
factors include: cancer of the breast, prostate, colon and rectum,
oral cavity, lung, endometrium, and cervix.
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Other
factors also influence risk for cancer, such as genetic susceptibility,
but only set the stage. It is the environmental factors (such as diet) that determine
whether susceptibility becomes translated into clinical disease.
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