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Second Expert Report: Contents

You can view, download or buy the Second Expert Report and you can download graphics from the Report for slide presentations.

Please visit our resource downloads section. Materials are free to download following registration. An overview of the Report contents is shown below.

Contents of the Report

Part 1: Provides background to the Report and describes the process by which the evidence was reviewed by the SLR centres and judged by the Expert Panel

  • Chapter 1: International variations and trends
  • Chapter 2: The cancer process
  • Chapter 3: Judging the evidence

Part 2: Presents evidence for foods and drinks, physical activity and growth development and body composition as well as for each cancer type. It also presents evidence on the determinants of obesity, evidence for cancer survivors and findings of other reports on other diseases

  • Chapter 4: Foods and drinks
  • Chapter 5: Physical activity
  • Chapter 6: Body composition, growth, and development
  • Chapter 7: Cancers
  • Chapter 8: Determinants of weight gain, overweight and obesity
  • Chapter 9: Cancer survivors
  • Chapter 10: Findings of other reports
  • Chapter 11: Research issues

Part 3: Presents the 10 Recommendations for Cancer Prevention

  • Chapter 12: Public health goals and personal recommendations

View corrections to the Second Expert Report identified since the publication in 2007.

Additional Resources

Systematic literature reviews

  • Food, nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of cancer (systematic literature reviews are available for cancers of mouth, pharynx and larynx, nasopharynx, oesophagus, lung, stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, colon and rectum, breast, ovary, endometrium, cervix, prostate, kidney and skin, as well as colorectal polyps)
  • Cancer survivorship
  • Determinants of weight gain, overweight and obesity
  • Other authoritative reports

All SLRs were updated in June 2006 with the exception of Other Authoritative Reports which was prepared in 2005. All SLRs will be updated in future as part of the Continuous Update Project.