Welcome to our comprehensive cancer prevention resource hub! Here, you'll find invaluable information and tools to empower yourself and your community in the fight against cancer. Explore our curated collection of resources covering screening, healthy lifestyle choices, tobacco control, sun safety, vaccination, and more, designed to help you reduce your risk and promote overall well-being.
BC Cancer: Preventing Cancer
BC Cancer outlines how 4 in 10 cancer cases can be prevented through healthy behavioural change. What you eat and drink, your activity level, whether you smoke or drink alcohol, and other behaviours can all make a difference to your risk of getting cancer, and your chances of preventing it. It’s never too early or too late to start practicing these healthy habits!
Canadian Cancer Society: Reduce Your Risk
About 4 in 10 cancer cases can be prevented through healthy living and policies that protect the health of Canadians. The good news is you can reduce your risk of cancer right now. There’s no time like the present to start making positive lifestyle changes to feel better and live longer. The Canadian Cancer Society provides a wealth of information on how to prevent cancer.
American Cancer Society: Cancer Risk and Prevention
There's no sure way to prevent cancer, but you can help reduce your risk by making healthy choices like eating right, staying active, and not smoking. The American Cancer Society outlines the causes of cancer and ways to lower cancer risk.
National Cancer Institute: Cancer Prevention Overview
Cancer prevention is action taken to lower the chance of getting cancer. In addition to the physical problems and emotional distress caused by cancer, the high costs of care are also a burden to patients, their families, and to the public. By preventing cancer, the number of new cases of cancer is lowered. Hopefully, this will reduce the burden of cancer and lower the number of deaths caused by cancer.
Cancer is not a single disease but a group of related diseases. Many things in our genes, our lifestyle, and the environment around us may increase or decrease our risk of getting cancer.
The National Cancer Institute provides an overview of cancer prevention, carcinogenesis, risk factors, and interventions.
Cancer Research UK: Can Cancer Be Prevented?
Not all cancers can be prevented but there are things you can do to reduce your risk; these include not smoking and keeping a healthy weight. The world around us can make being healthy hard, and this can affect some people more than others. The government can help make it easier for us all.
Cancer Research UK outlines how smoking, alcohol, body composition, activity level, sun exposure, diet quality, and infectious diseases impact cancer risk.
Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer
Specialists on the subject and civil society representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean, convened by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), have reviewed the scientific evidence and recommend 17 actions people can take to help prevent cancer.
Australian Cancer Council: Causes and Prevention
At least one in three cancer cases could be prevented and the number of cancer deaths could be reduced significantly by choosing a cancer-smart lifestyle. Each year, more than 13,000 cancer deaths are due to smoking, sun exposure, poor diet, alcohol, inadequate exercise or being overweight.
The Australian Cancer Coul outlines a number of simple lifestyle changes you can make to help reduce your risk of cancer.
World Health Organization: Preventing Cancer
Between 30–50% of all cancer cases are preventable. Prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the control of cancer. WHO works with Member States to strengthen national policies and programmes to raise awareness and, reduce exposure to cancer risk factors, and also ensure that people are provided with the information and support they need to adopt healthy lifestyles.
World Cancer Research Fund: Cancer Prevention Recommendations
The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) Cancer Prevention Recommendations are the conclusions of an independent panel of experts – they represent a package of healthy lifestyle choices which, together, can make an enormous impact on people’s likelihood of developing cancer and other non-communicable diseases over their lifetimes.
Science Up First
ScienceUpFirst is a national initiative that works with a collective of independent scientists, researchers, climate and health experts and science communicators.
ScienceUpFirst emerged out of a critical need. When the pandemic hit, co-founders Timothy Caulfield and Senator Stan Kutcher saw how misinformation was hurting Canadians. Since ScienceUpFirst started in 2020, it has grown into a funded initiative of the Canadian Association of Science Centres, working to fight misinformation and promote scientific understanding.