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Lung Cancer Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention

Learn about the risk factors for lung cancer and what you might be able to do to help lower your risk.

Risk Factors

A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Learn more about the risk factors for lung cancer.

Prevention

There is no way to completely prevent cancer. But there are things you can do that might lower your risk. Learn more.

Know Your Cancer Risk

Take the ACS CancerRisk360™ assessment to learn more about what you can change to improve your health. By taking 5 minutes to answer a few questions, we will give you a personalized roadmap of actions with helpful resources you can use to lower your risk of cancer.

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