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Strategies to prevent the most prevalent cancers in the West are remarkably straightforward in principle. To prevent lung cancer, quit smoking; to prevent breast cancer, maintain your ideal body weight and exercise; and to prevent skin cancer, stay out of the sun.¹ Now comes a seemingly simple way to reduce the risk of bladder cancer, which is the fourth most common cancer among men in the United States: drink more fluids.

Until now, the only firmly established risk factors for bladder cancer were cigarette smoking and exposure to a class of chemical carcinogens known as arylamines. In fact, bladder cancer . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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