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Fast fact #67

#67: More than 100 000 cancers - equivalent to one-third of those diagnosed in the UK each year - are caused by smoking, unhealthy diets, alcohol and excess weight.

Disease
Food and diet
The body

Bibliography

Source: Cancer Research UK
http://www.scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2011/12/07/the-causes-of-cancer-you-can-control
Originally published in Big Picture: Careers From Biology
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Teaching-and-education/Big-Picture/All-issues/Careers/index.htm

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