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Lifestyle changes would slash cancer rates

By Dr. Melanie Bone March 19, 2010

Prevention and early detection are cancer mantras. I just read an article about cancer prevention. Astoundingly, a Harvard study concluded that up to 80 percent of cancers are due to lifestyle. If so, most could be prevented with lifestyle changes. What are they? How do we change them?

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