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Cancer report urges greater focus on prevention

                       

New Zealand’s national cancer agency calls for better use of research to inform lifestyle changes

Translating research into changed behaviours is needed urgently to reduce cancer levels in New Zealand, a report has said.

Initiatives such as New Zealand’s move to being “smoke-free” by 2025 will make a big difference in preventable disease and pressure on the health system, according to the Cancer Prevention Report published this month by New Zealand’s cancer control agency Te Aho o Te Kahu. It was written in collaboration with the University of Otago, Wellington, and the Health Promotion Agency.

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