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Unhealthy lifestyle and dietary habits, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and consumption of diets high in red and processed meats and low in fruits, vegetables, fiber, and calcium, may increase an individual's risk of developing cancer.
Alcohol consumers are highly vulnerable to oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal (squamous cell carcinoma), liver, breast, and colorectal cancers.
Colorectal cancer patients on high-fiber diets may have a low tendency of dying from the disease.
A decline in total, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality risk is associated with frequent consumption of generous portions of whole grains.
Cigarette smoking may promote the development of mucinous type of epithelial ovarian cancer in women.
Individuals who are cigarette smokers may be highly vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.
A decline in non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk is associated with frequent consumers of foods high in carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin.
Smoking is associated with increased predisposition to rectal cancer in both men and women.
Marked reduction in the risk of prostate cancer is associated with high consumption and elevated plasma concentrations of lycopene.
Frequent consumption of foods loaded with lycopene, lutein, zeaxathin, beta-carotenoids, alpha-carotenoids, and beta-cryptoxanthin may help boost an individual's defenses against prostate cancer.
Generous intake of foods rich in lycopene may help cut down ovarian cancer risk in postmenopausal women.
