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Keynote address: cancer prevention
1Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Abstract:
Life-style factors that have a major impact on cancer risk are smoking, alcohol consumption, and diet. Current evidence suggests that dietary fat is an etiologic factor for colorectal and postmenopausal breast cancer and that foods high in dietary fiber may be beneficial against colorectal cancer. Clinical prevention trials, augmented by molecular and biological marker studies, will provide new knowledge for diet modification and chemoprevention. These studies are likely to influence the scope of oncology and public health practices of the future.
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