Prevention of cancer in primary care: principles and practices
Journal Title: General medicine and Clinical Practice - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
This paper focuses on what the primary care team – physicians and praxis nurses – can do to prevent the most common non-communicable diseases, particularly cancer. The most basic concepts underlying the preventive practice in primary care are summarized. Risk factors The causes of diseases are not sufficiently understood. Epidemiological evidence, however, has suggested that many different factors are not necessarily causal agents but are associated, individually or in combination, with an increased probability or risk of the occurance of certain diseases. This are widely, even if loosely denited as determinants, or predisposing, or risk factors.1 Most of these diseases can be prevented, as an important role in their development has been attributed to a variety of personal and social habits, behavioural patterns and culturally influenced factors, such as smoking, poor or unhaelty diet, excessive drinking, physical inactivity, being overweight, risky sexual and repropductive behaviour, etc.; all these can be summarized as lifestyle-related risk factors. (For the lifestyle-concept, see Mark Lalond’s paper.2) The adoption of these lifestyle-related determinants of disease is largely voluntary, although influenced by the social environment, therfore they can be modified, thus, the risk of disease development can be substancially reduced. According to epidemiological researches, instrinsic factors and environmental hazards are considered to have a relatively small impact on total disease burden.
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Lajos Döbrőssy
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