Changing the odds : cancer prevention through personal choice and public policy / R. Grant Steen.

New York, NY : Facts on File, [1995], ©1995.

xi, 388 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

The nature of the problem -- Defining the causes of cancer -- Strategies of cancer prevention -- Cancer and the family history -- Chemical exposures and cancer -- Diet and cancer -- Nutrition and cancer -- Radiation and cancer -- Hormones, wound-healing, and cancer -- Viruses, microbes, and cancer -- Lifestyle, behavior, and cancer -- Cancer risk avoidance -- Public health policy and cancer prevention -- Cancer screening and public health policy -- Nutritional and chemical cancer prevention -- Hormonal and other methods of cancer prevention -- Compendium of cancer risk factors.