Use lifestyle to drop your cancer risk. A healthy lifestyle can reduce cancer incidence. Even more encouraging is a new study that shows that living well can drop cancer risk even among those with a high genetic risk.
Lifestyle is associated with 42 percent of cancers (and 45 percent of deaths due to the disease) in the United States. These risks include a poor diet, too much weight, and not enough physical activity. We may prevent nearly half of the most common cancers in the USA through there and other changeable risk factors.
Now comes a study from Nanjing Medical University (China) that shows the power of lifestyle to reduce cancer risk extends to those with a high risk for cancer due to inherited genetics.
Here’s what the researchers did: They created an indicator — the cancer polygenic risk score — to measure overall genetic risk for all cancer types. They also looked at the extent to which a healthy lifestyle might offset a high genetic risk for cancer.”
Lifestyle matters when it comes to cancer risk
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