Toward the development of an equitable cancer prevention

The most reasonable and socially acceptable development of cancer prevention should be the blending of the population approach, that is the shifting of the distribution of risk factors across an entire population in a favourable direction, with the high risk approach aimed at the identification, surveillance and possibly early interventions on individuals with particularly high values of predisposition to cancer. Interventions aimed at reducing or eliminating genetically determined weaknesses with regard to interactions with the environment, will not make, therefore, in any way obsolete or redundant, interventions aimed at eliminating or reducing exposure to environmental carcinogens.