Prevent Cancer Risk at a Young Age, Early Detection and Avoid Factors

KOMPAS.com – Illness cancer can attack anyone regardless of age.

Not only in people in old age, young generation like millennial and Gen Z also at risk cancer.

If you look at the development of Basic Health Research Data (Riskesdas) in 2018, even eight out of 100,000 children aged 1-4 years have cancer risk.

Meanwhile, the figure jumped sharply in the age group 15-24 years, about 47 people are at risk of developing cancer in every 100,000 people.

According to, dr. Aldrin Neilwan Panca Putra, Sp.Ak., MARS, M.Biomed, M.Kes., SH, Head of the Diseases Sub-Directorate Cancer and Blood Disorders, Ministry of Health RI, the number is predicted to continue to increase.

This happens as people’s lifestyles are increasingly ignorant of cancer prevention.

Such as eating too often instant food, high in fat and sugar.

Some of these habits can trigger obesity which is the highest risk factor cause of cancer.

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“If we read the data, the most risk factors for cancer, 30 to 35 percent, are related to diet (diet), lack of physical activity and smoking.”

Thus the explanation of dr. Aldrin when found Kompas.comat the 2022 Cancer Community Festival initiated by PT Kalbe Farma Tbk (Kalbe), Kota Kasablanka Mall, Jakarta, Saturday (6/8/2022).

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