More research needed in the area of Survivorship & reducing recurrence

We hear a lot these days about the steps we can take to reduce our risk of getting cancer.

Don't eat splenda! Eat splenda! Stay out of the sun! Stop smoking! No drinking! Only white wine! Only red wine! No red meat! All these messages, often conflicting one another, we're told will reduce the risk of getting cancer.

But what about the 1-in-3 of us who have already had cancer... do we follow the same guidelines? Stricter ones? Different ones?

A leading cancer expert is calling for more research into issues of survivorship and how to prevent cancer recurring in those who have already had it.

Prof Martin Wiseman, Medical and Scientific Adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund, says the lack of quality research on the subject makes it hard to give people nutritional and lifestyle advice once they have already battled the disease.

He told the Mirror: "There has been a vast amount of research over the last 10 years on the nutritional factors that cause or protect people from cancer, but there have not been enough that has focused on what sort of lifestyle choice people who have already had the disease can make to reduce their chances of it recurring.

With 11 million survivors in the US alone, this hole in our knowledge urgently needs to be addressed.