Professor Murat Tuncer
Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

Importance of cancer prevention

Professor Murat Tuncer discusses the importance of disease prevention and explains what steps must be taken to reduce the prevalence of cancer and other non-communicable diseases. Professor Tuncer identifies the levels of smoking, obesity and diabetes as key factors that should be targeted and outlines how these should be addressed.

These are interviews with key participants of the National Cancer Institutes Directors Meeting organized annually by the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France. The interviews were produced by eCancer.