Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
cancer prevention
can·cer pre·ven·tion
Definitions related to cancer prevention:
  • All methods of preventing cancer including limit of exposure to carcinogens and infectious agents, diet, education, etc
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Increasing the awareness of cancer, prevention of cancer in susceptible individuals or populations through promotion of health or a healthy environment, or with chemopreventive methods, and prevention of complications or after-effects of existing disease; this concept may overlap with NEOPLASM/CANCER EDUCATION.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • There are many different types of cancer, which have different causes and risk factors. Also, individual people have different risks for developing different cancers. Therefore, no set of prevention strategies is effective in every person. However, some general strategies do reduce risk of cancer in many people.
    Merck Manuals
    Merck & Co., Inc., 2025
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