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What is Cancer Prevention

Chapter 81
Encyclopedia of E-Health and Telemedicine
All the active measures that can be taken to decrease the risk of cancer. Includes actions to lower exposure to known cancer risk factors ( primary prevention ) and diagnose pre-malignant forms of cancer ( secondary prevention ).
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Smartphones: Innovative Tools in Cancer Prevention
Nuno Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto, Portugal), Luís Miguel Nunes Silva Alves Moreira (Instituto Piaget, Portugal), Ana Margarida Pisco Almeida (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal), and Manuel Filipe Santos (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9978-6.ch081
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