Cancers - Top 10 Ways to Cut Your Risk - Occupational Health & Your Exposure
20Cancers - Top 10 Ways to Cut Your Risk - Occupational Health & Your Exposure
In Cancers, Part 1 & 2, we covered what substances in the environment are known to cause or are likely to cause cancer in humans - and where they are found.
This video outlines the Top Ten known ways to cut your risk of developing cancers.
Share this information with your friends, family and co-workers. Cancers can be prevented or slowed in developing. Research is ongoing and the latest developments in defeating cancer are reviewed.
Resources for this video are shown below.
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NCI’s on-line library of cancer information:
http://cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_literature
The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov
NCI’s SEER Program is the most authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States:
http://seer.cancer.gov
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS): This branch of the CDC collects national statistics to monitor the nation’s health: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
National Program of Cancer Registries, which funds statewide cancer registries in 45 states, the District of Columbia, and several territories, serves as a valuable resource for citizens concerned about a possible increased occurrence of cancer in their communities:
www.cdc.gov/cancer/npcr
For geographic patterns of rates of cancer death from 1950–1994 for over 40 cancers: http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus
The National Library of Medicine has compiled a list of the ingredients in common household products and their health effects:
http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC): http://www.iarc.fr IARC is part of the World Health Organization and its mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer. IARC publishes a series of reports that focuses on the cancer risks associated with particular kinds of agents such as industrial chemicals, viruses, and ionizing radiation.
World Health Organization’s document: “Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases”: http://www.who.int/hpr/nph/docs/who_fao_expert_report.pdf
American Cancer Society’s nutrition and diet guidelines:
http://www.cancer.org/eprise/main/docroot