According to the World Health Organization, four non-communicable diseases (NCDs) – cancers, cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and diabetes – are responsible for 80% of all deaths from NCDs worldwide. This is despite the fact that there is a clear link between lifestyle and non-communicable diseases.
Our own analysis of global research shows that about a third of the most common cancers can be prevented through diet, maintaining a healthy weight and taking regular physical activity.
So behaviour change is key to the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases, particularly as the number of cancer cases are expected to rise globally over the next two decades.
On this page we highlight specific lifestyle factors and their link to cancer; this includes:
looking at the research analysis we conduct as part of our Continuous Update Project (CUP) – the world’s largest, most authoritative and up-to-date source of scientific research on cancer prevention and survivorship through diet, nutrition, physical activity and cancer;
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