A recently completed study by the American Cancer Society as identified older age and smoking as "the two most important risk factors associated with a relative and absolute five-year risk of developing any cancer." The cohort study, comprising 429,991 participants across the USA with no prior history of cancer were followed; within a 5-year period, 15,226 of these participants were diagnosed with cancer. In addition, risk factors including alcohol intake, family history of cancer, read meet consumption and physical inactivity contributed to an "absolute five-year risk as high as 29% in men and 25% in women."
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