Causes of cancer - A to Z
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There are over 200 types of cancer, and there is no single cause that links all of these diseases.
Each individual cancer is caused by a combination of things - some of which we can influence, such as lifestyle choices like smoking, and others that we cannot control, such as age and our genetics.
Find out more using the links below.
Browse content about Causes of cancer
- Alcohol and cancer
- Bodyweight and risk of cancer in the UK - statistics
- Breast cancer - risk factors
- Cancer causes
- Causes of cancer - Carcinogens
- Causes of cancer - Lifestyle
- Diet, alcohol and cancer in the UK - statistics
- Dr Paul Pharoah
- Epstein-Barr virus
- HRT and cancer
- Harmful substances - chemicals, pollution and cancer
- Harmful substances and cancer - chemicals in the workplace
- Hepatitis viruses and cancer
- Hormones and cancer
- Hormones in our environment - do they affect our risk of cancer?
- Infections and cancer - an overview
- Is cancer just a modern disease?
- Kidney cancer risk factors
- Lesson plan - Design your own health campaign
- Lifestyle and cancer risk in the UK population - statistics
- March 2010 podcast transcript
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma risk factors
- Occupation and cancer in the UK - statistics
- Oral cancer - risk factors
- Our impact on children's cancers
- Pancreatic cancer risk factors
- Prof Alan Rickinson
- Prof Chris Boshoff
- Prof Irene Leigh
- Prof Jillian Birch
- Prof Kay-Tee Khaw
- Prof Roland Wolf
- Professor Richard Peto
- Prostate cancer - risk factors
- Smokeless tobacco and cancer
- Smoking and cancer
- Statistics on the causes of cancer
- Sunbed use in children
- Talcum powder and cancer
- Thanks for visiting the Cancer Awareness Roadshow
- The evidence behind our health messages
- Tobacco and cancer risk - statistics
- Vaginal cancer - risk factors
- What causes cancer?
- All about cancer
- Bowel cancer - risk factors
- Cancer Insight - Issue 1 - November 2009
- Cancer insight - GP News: Follow-ups are key
- Causes of cancer - DNA damage
- Cervical cancer - risk factors
- Diet, healthy eating and cancer
- Dr Sally Roberts
- Family history - when cancer runs in the family
- HTLV1 retrovirus
- Harmful substances and cancer - Air pollution and radon
- Helicobacter pylori and cancer
- Hodgkin's lymphoma risk factors
- Hormones and cancer in the UK - statistics
- Human papillomaviruses (HPV)
- Infectious agents and cancer - statistics
- Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus
- Laryngeal cancer risk factors
- Lesson plan - What is cancer?
- Lung cancer - risk factors
- Medical x-rays and cancer
- Obesity, body weight and cancer
- Oesophageal Cancer Risk Factors
- Our impact on breast cancer
- Ovarian cancer risk factors
- Physical activity, exercise and cancer
- Prof Alan Storey
- Prof Doug Easton
- Prof Jane Wardle
- Prof John Atherton
- Prof Lawrence Young
- Prof Valerie Beral
- Professor Tim Key
- Skin Cancer risk factors
- Smoking - statistics
- Smoking and cancer: Second-hand smoke
- Stomach cancer - risk factors
- Sunlight and sunbeds and skin cancer in the UK - statistics
- Testicular cancer - risk factors
- The birth control Pill and cancer
- Things we do can lead to cancer
- Uterine (Womb) Cancer risk factors
- Vulval cancer - risk factors
- What is cancer?
Latest Causes of cancer news from Cancer Research UK
- Press Release: Friends and family are encouraging youngsters to risk health for sunbed glow
19 January 2012 - Press Release: Processed meat may increase pancreatic cancer risk
13 January 2012 - News story: Tobacco firms withdraw legal challenge to display ban
4 January 2012 - Press Release: Blocking cancer cell's energy generator could lead to new targeted treatments
17 August 2011 - News story: Cancer Research UK scientist honoured by the Royal Society
19 July 2011 - Press Release: Scientists unlock further prostate cancer secrets
10 July 2011 - News story: Teenage BMI 'associated with future risk of cancer death in men'
16 June 2011 - News story: Cancer Research UK-funded scientists find way to eliminate leukaemia stem cells
6 June 2011 - Press Release: Missing DNA 'mechanic' key driver in lymphomas
17 May 2011 - News story: New law protects under-18s from sunbed dangers
8 April 2011
- News story: Researchers defend HRT breast cancer study
17 January 2012 - News story: 'Detox' immune cells linked to skin cancer development
6 January 2012 - Press Release: Scientists discover three new gene faults which could increase melanoma risk by thirty per cent
9 October 2011 - Press Release: Height gives clue to cancer
21 July 2011 - News story: Contact allergies 'may be associated with reduced risk of some cancers'
12 July 2011 - Press Release: 'Detox protein' is collaborator in pancreatic and lung cancer development
6 July 2011 - News story: Italian scientists reveal genetic root of rare form of leukaemia
11 June 2011 - Press Release: Discovery of gene ripple effect which causes cervical cancer to advance and spread
18 May 2011 - Press Release: Extreme chromosomal instability linked to better survival
15 May 2011 - Press Release: Scientists discover crucial trigger for tumour protein
30 March 2011
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