Cancer Risk Factors
Adherence to the AICR cancer prevention recommendations reduces disease risk
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 16th, 2004
J.R. Cerhan and associates in the Clinic's Health Science Research department wrote: "In 1997, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) published 14 recommendations related to diet for individuals to reduce cancer incidence on a global basis; smoking was also discouraged.
"We operationalized these into nine recommendations that are particularly relevant to western populations in a cohort of 29,564 women ages 55 to 69 years at baseline in 1986 who had no history of cancer or...
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