What you can do

The risk of many cancers can be reduced by a healthy lifestyle and environment.

You can reduce your risk by:

Being Smokefree
Eating a diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fat and sugar
Being a healthy weight
Being regularly physically active
Following lower risk guidelines if you drink alcohol
Being SunSmart - avoiding over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the sun and sun beds
Undertaking recommended screening for different cancers.

What is cancer?

What is cancer, how does it behave in our bodies, how does it develop and spread, and the difference between benign and malignant tumours?

Alcohol and cancer

Information about the risks of drinking alcohol. The parts of the body most affected by alcohol are upper throat, voice-box, food-pipe, bowel, liver and breast (in women).

SunSmart

We encourage all New Zealanders to be SunSmart and to 'slip, slop, slap and wrap.'

Nutrition and physical activity

An explanation of how and why healthy eating and regular exercise can reduce the risk of cancer. There is plenty of evidence now to support this. The article contains a number of links to resource sheets and brochures on the subjects.