LONDON (AP) — About 40 percent of cancers could be prevented if people stopped smoking and overeating, limited their alcohol, exercised regularly and got vaccines targeting cancer-causing infections, experts say.

To mark World Cancer day on Thursday, officials at the International Union Against Cancer released a report focused on steps that governments and the public can take to avoid the disease.

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is responsible for one out of every eight deaths worldwide – more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. WHO warned that without major changes, global cancer deaths will jump from about 7.6 million this year to 17 million by 2030.

In many ways, Patricia Johnson and Augustus Vincent Jr. couldn’t be more different.

Vincent lives in Metro Detroit. Johnson lives nearly 400 miles away in Newberry, a bucolic community in the state’s Upper Peninsula. She is a retired first-grade teacher. He worked on the line at a General Motors plant for 30 years. She immediately pursued breast cancer treatment. He delayed prostate cancer treatment for three years. She’s white. He’s black.

What do they have in common? In addition to having cancer, each has a higher than average chance of dying from it.

A special thank you for those that helped with the fundraiser for the 10 year old with cancer in Harrison Township