A check list for cancer / disease prevention

1. Modifiable ("lifestyle") risk factors:
   · Life habit: smoking, and heavy alcohol consumption
   · Environmental factors: Harmful radiation, Carcinogens (Asbestos, benzene, …)
   
2. Diet
   · Reduce intake of foods and drinks that promote weight gain, namely energy-dense foods and sugary drinks
   · Eat mostly foods of plant origin
   · Limit intake of red meat and avoiding processed meat
   · Limit consumption of alcoholic beverages, and
   · Reduce intake of salt and avoiding moldy cereals (grains) or pulses (legumes)
   · Restrictive calorie intake
   . Eat more alkaline food than acidic food because cancer cell love acidic environment ( Cancer cell pH: 4~6.5 VS normal blood serum pH = 7.4)
   · Take vitamins/Supplements to help maintain general health and thus prevent disease progression because vitamin A, B12, C, D have linked to reduced risk of various cancers
   
3. Chemoprevention
   · Daily use of tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), typically for 5 years, has been demonstrated to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer in high-risk women by about 50%.
   · selective estrogen receptor modulator raloxifene has similar benefits to tamoxifen
   · Recently, Resevertrol is the focus of study
   
   
4. Genetic testing to provide personalized medicine based on Gene SNP
   
   
5. Vaccination
   Gardasil and Cervarix
   Hepatitis B vaccine, which prevents infection with the hepatitis B virus, an infectious agent that can cause liver cancer