TOWARD THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EQUITABLE CANCER PREVENTION

The most reasonable and socially acceptable development of cancer prev ention should be the blending of the population approach, that is the shifting of the distribution of risk factors across an entire populati on in a favourable direction, with the high risk approach aimed at the identification, surveillance and possibly early interventions on indi viduals with particularly high values of predisposition to cancer. int erventions aimed at reducing or eliminating genetically determined wea knesses with regard to interactions with the environment, will not mak e, therefore, in any way obsolete or redundant, interventions aimed at eliminating or reducing exposure to environmental carcinogens.