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Cancer prevention refers to activities that help to reduce the incidence and overall burden of cancer. It can include screening, but more broadly encompasses other activities in the clinical setting as well as individual behaviors. Traditionally, prevention has been defined in tiers of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention.

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Mita Sanghavi Goel

  2. Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

    Linda Overholser

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  1. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Larissa Nekhlyudov

  2. Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Mita Sanghavi Goel

  3. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Jenny J. Lin

  4. University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora , Aurora, CO, USA

    Linda Overholser

  5. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Kimberly S. Peairs

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Goel, M.S., Overholser, L. (2019). Cancer Prevention. In: Nekhlyudov, L., Goel, M., Lin, J., Overholser, L., Peairs, K. (eds) Caring for Patients Across the Cancer Care Continuum. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01896-2_2

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