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Figure 12.1 Percentage of all cancer deaths linked to risk factors

Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention, Volume I: Causes of Human Cancer
The statistics in the text were taken from this; the full text of which is available online.
( http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cancer/resources_materials/reports/ )
American Cancer Society
More information on risk factors.
( http://www.cancer.org )
National Cancer Institute CancerNet: Genetics, Causes, Risk Factors, Prevention

( http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/prevention )

Figure 12.2 Cancer cases and deaths by site and sex

Statistics on cancer cases and deaths are available from the following sites:

American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures
(updated every year)
( http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp )
National Cancer Institute: Cancer Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)

( http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov )







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