American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention: Reducing the Risk of Cancer with Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity

By Tim Byers, Marion Nestle, A. McTiernan, C. Doyle, Alexis Currie‐Williams, T. Gansler, Michael J. Thun. Ca, 2002

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The American Cancer Society (ACS) has set aggressive challenge goals for the nation to decrease cancer incidence and mortality—and to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors—by the year 2015.

Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Citations in the corpus

• Epidemiology of basal-like breast cancer (2008, background): “nutrition, promoting a healthy diet, and encouraging physical activity [79] could impact the incidence of basallike breast cancer, especially programs that target excessive weight gain.”
• Nutrition and physical activity guidelines for cancer survivors (2012, background): “In the absence of more definitive information, survivors of head and neck and upper gastrointestinal cancers should follow, to the extent they are able, the ACS nutrition and physical activity guidelines for the prevention of cancer.(52)”
• Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States (2018, background): “recreational activity for the association between physical inactivity and cancer, because guidelines generally pertain to recreational activity, and most studies have investigated this type of activity.(38,39) SHS exposure was defined as having a serum cotinine level of 0.”
• Obesity and colon and rectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of prospective studies. (2007, background): “This meta-analysis provides further support to public health efforts aiming to lower the prevalence of overweight and obesity to reduce the incidence of cancer and other chronic diseases (79).”