Healthy lifestyles, gender and cancer
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2015.773n3002Keywords:
alcohol, reproductive factors, obesity, tobaccoAbstract
If we had to classify the risk factors making us more prone to develop cancer we could simply divide them into endogenous and exogenous factors. Among the endogenous factors we could find all those relating to heredity (genetic predisposition) or with non-hereditary molecular alterations that make our cells become malignant more easily. These factors are not modifiable; however, exogenous factors depend on lifestyle choices, which are. These factors have an influence on a large percentage of the most prevalent cancers nowadays, such as colon, breast and lung cancer. Taking action on tobacco and obesity would reduce the incidence of cancer by 30-40% in the industrialised countries. This article reviews the role of negative lifestyle choices in the development of cancer.
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