Abstract

Cancer prevention is a system of various measures devoted to avoid this disease. Primary cancer prevention means the identification, avoidance, or destruction of known risk factors. The main risk factors are smoking, diet, alcohol consumption, occupational factors, environmental pollution, electromagnetic radiation, infection, medicines, reproductive hormones, and lack of physical activity. Approximately one-third of cancers can be avoided by implementing various preventive measures. The aim of this article was to acquaint medical students, family doctors with risk factors of main cancer sites (lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate).

Highlights

  • Cancer prevention is a system of various measures devoted to avoid this disease

  • Onethird of cancers can be avoided by implementing various preventive measures

  • Anthropometric measures and prostate cancer risk: a review of prospective cohort and intervention studies

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Introduction

Straipsnio tikslas – pateikti studentams medikams, šeimos gydytojams žinių apie dažniausių (plaučių, krūties, kolorektinio ir priešinės liaukos) vėžio lokalizacijų rizikos veiksnius. Šio straipsnio tikslas – suteikti studentams medikams, šeimos gydytojams daugiau informacijos apie dažniausių pasaulyje ir Lietuvoje piktybinių navikų lokalizacijų rizikos veiksnius, nes jų įvardijimas bei vengimas yra pagrindinis pirminės vėžio profilaktikos uždavinys. Kad rūkančių vyrų nerūkančios žmonos suserga plaučių vėžiu apie 20 proc. Kad krūties vėžio genezė yra susijusi su lytinių hormonų savybėmis, egzistavo nuo 18 a.

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