 says an alarming u.s study that's right you can avoid cancer i don't know if i want to go with a brain ship considering this study but uh... four-in-ten cancer cases in half of all adult cancer deaths united states could be avoided according to research researchers say their findings demonstrated urgent need for more effective interventions and access to preventive health care roughly one point eight million new cancer cases are diagnosed in the u.s every year with roughly six hundred thousand deaths