What�s The Risk To Get Cancer?

What�s The Risk To Get Cancer?: "What�s The Risk To Get Cancer?


In all the publication, The World Health Organisation (W.H.O.) summarise what we know about cancer from scientific research:

Cancer is largely preventable:

By stopping smoking, providing healthy food and avoiding the exposure to carcinogens.

The most frequent cancer types are curable by surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. The chance of cure increases substantially if cancer is detected early.

Quality of life of cancer patients and their families can be greatly improved by the provision of palliative care.

Recommendations from the World Health Organisation concerning cancer include action in the following areas:

� eliminating exposure to cancer causes
� reducing individual susceptibility to the effects of these causes
� serving the greatest public health potential
� identifying the most cost-effective long-term cancer control
� tobacco control
� obesity control
� control of composition of the diet
� control of consumption of alcoholic beverages

Cancer control is a public health approach aimed at reducing causes and consequences of cancer by translating our knowledge into practice.

The prevention programmes from the World Health Organization sees cancer-prevention as part of integrated, national strategies. They identify the risk for cancers above are common to all non communicable diseases including heart, diabetes and respiratory problems.

All Prevention programmes for all chronic diseases are able to use the same surveillance and health promotion techniques. According to WHO recognised causes of cancer include:

� occupational and environmental exposure to a number of chemicals
� links between a number of i"