• Question: Is there a way to avoid cancer?

    Asked by nienie13 to Karen, Amy, Sarah, Will on 19 Jun 2012. This question was also asked by markholmes2011.
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      Karen Reed answered on 19 Jun 2012:

      Hiya Nienie – there are certainly things we can do to reduce our chances of getting cancer – the biggest being DONT SMOKE. The chemicals in smoke increases the chances of damaging your DNA and that’s what causes cancer (if the damage is in the right / wrong bit of DNA). Also eating heathly, getting lots of exercise and not getting over weight all reduce your chances but unfortunately there isn’t a 100% sure fire way of avaoiding cancer completely.
      hope that helps

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