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Oncologists on simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer
Cancer doctors know better than anyone how you can give yourself the best possible chance of avoiding a disease that one in two of us will get. Here, they share the tips that they live by
In colorectal cancer, this is increasing markedly, and I think the big things are lack of exercise, the wrong diet, obesity and a westernised lifestyle.” Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Rex/Shutterstock Saunders points to the fact that an estimated cases are linked to eating too much processed or red meat. Professor Pat Price, a consultant oncologist who helped to launch the Catch Up With Cancer campaign to lobby for better access to treatment, says: “Go to your GP if you’ve got a symptom of cancer – coughing up blood, peeing blood or rectal bleeding, or a pain, or a lump or something like that, things that you know are not right.” There is a full list of signs and symptoms on the NHS website.
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