Global Survey Highlights Need For Cancer Prevention Campaigns To Correct Misbeliefs, Survey Finds
Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 10:21
in Health & Medicine
Many people hold mistaken beliefs about what causes cancer, tending to inflate the threat from environmental factors that have relatively little impact while minimizing the hazards of behaviors well established as cancer risk factors, according to the first global survey on the topic. People in high-income countries were the least likely to believe that drinking alcohol increases the risk of cancer.