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Despite major therapeutic progress over the last twenty years, cancer often remains an incurable disease or leaves many after-effects among cured patients.
However, in about fifty percent of cases, cancer could be nowadays avoided.
This chapter studies such avoidable cancers and the prevention measures to be taken. Cancer prevention is an important new role for physicians in the 21st century. To avoid physicians being considered as moralising or infringing on personal freedom, an active prevention policy should be based on scientific knowledge.
Epidemiological data
Main causes of cancers
Prevention policy
Genetic predispositions
Genetic counselling
Chemoprevention
Other chapters of this website
- Natural history of cancer
- Cancer prevention
- Cancer screening
- Cancer diagnosis
- Tumour markers
- Principles of Cancer Classification
- Cancer surgery
- Cancer radiotherapy
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Cancer hormonotherapy
- Other cancer therapies
- Multidisciplinary approach of cancer patients
- Psychological aspects
- Post-therapeutic follow-up
- Palliative care in cancer
- Cancer emergencies
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