Cancer Prevention Overview (PDQ®) - National Cancer Institute

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Cancer Prevention Overview (PDQ®) - National Cancer Institute

Cancer Prevention Overview (PDQ®)

• What is Prevention?

• Carcinogenesis

• Risk Factors

• Interventions That are Known to Lower Cancer Risk

• Interventions That Are Not Known to Lower Cancer Risk

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Carcinogenesis

Key Points for This Section

• Carcinogenesis is the process in which normal cells turn into cancer cells.
• Changes (mutations) in genes occur during carcinogenesis.