The organisation said that healthy eating, regular exercising and not smoking could reduce the number of cases by 95,000 people a year, more than the capacity of Wembley stadium.
"When you think about what Wembley Stadium looks like when it's full of people, it is a sobering thought that every year in the UK we estimate that even more people than this are diagnosed with a cancer that might have been prevented," said Professor Martin Wiseman, of the WCRF.
According to the WCRF, the number of cases of womb cancer – twice as prevalent in the obese – has risen by more than a fifth over the last ten years, while kidney cancer has increased by nearly one sixth.
It advised people to stay slim, exercise for at least half an hour a day and eat fruit, vegetables, wholegrains and pulses.
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