While some cancers are outside your control there are many which can be prevented. Although some risk factors for the disease - such as age or genetics - cannot be changed, others are within your control.
Things such as a healthy lifestyle can make a difference on the chance of developing some of the main forms of cancer. Foods, activity and even sunshine can affect the chances of getting the disease - and beating it if you do.
Elisa V. Bandera, MD, PhD and Carolyn J. Heckman, PhD, co-leaders of the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, together with RWJBarnabas Health, share their top tips for cancer prevention.
