PARIS: Nearly four out of every 10 cancer cases could be prevented if people avoided a range of risk factors, including smoking, drinking, air pollution and certain infections, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday (Feb 3). New research published on the eve of World Cancer Day estimated that 38 per cent of all new cancer cases globally in 2022 - 7.1 million - were linked to preventable causes. The large team of researchers, which included the WHO's International Agency for Research on