Cancer Prevention

Cancer can affect anyone.​

 

Many people might not realize how high the risk is, and how what they are doing that might be increasing their risk. Other people might have already had to fight the battle against cancer, and now want to reduce the risk of it occurring again.

 

According to Statistics Canada in 2023, the probability of developing cancer over a lifetime is 45%. That's almost one out of every two people. The cause of cancer is complex, and can vary depending on the type of cancer.

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Fortunately, there are strategies that can help to prevent cancer or reduce risk of cancer recurrence. While there are risk factors that cannot be changed, such as age and genetics, but there are still many ways that everyone can lower their risk.

 

Nutrition strategies to lower risk of cancer includes having more of the foods with anticancer properties, and limiting the foods and beverages that could increase your risk. In addition to nutrition, there are many other ways that can potentially help to reduce your risk including physical activity, preventing gain of excess fat tissue, avoiding tobacco and alcohol, minimizing exposure to pollution and UV rays, and more.

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A dietitian can help guide you on lifestyle behaviour strategies that can help lower your cancer risk, as well as support you with making these changes. Making these changes can help improve many aspects of your health as well, as the strategies often align with what is recommended to prevent other chronic diseases.

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If you're interested in getting support for reducing your risk of cancer or cancer recurrence, go to this page to check out the nutrition counselling packages.​​

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