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Nine Risk Factors Causing Rise in Global Cancer Deaths
January 26, 2010: 3 comment(s)
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Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health working in collaboration with other World Health authorities identified specific risk factors that were linked to 12 common cancers found around the world. They found that of the 7 million world wide cancer deaths in 2001, 35% of those deaths could be attributed to nine well known behavioral and environmental risk factors.
Majid Ezzati, senior author of the study and an assistant professor at Harvard stated, “These results clearly show that many globally important types of cancer are preventable by changes in lifestyle behaviors and environmental interventions.” Her group discovered these nine risk factors explained the death of over 2 million cancer deaths world wide which could have been prevented.
1. Overweight and obesity
2. Low fruit and vegetable intake
3. Smoking (It caused 21% of the cancer deaths worldwide in 2001.)
4. Lack of physical activity
5. Alcohol
6. Unsafe sex
7. Urban air pollution
8. Indoor smoke with coal heating
9. Contaminated injections in a medical setting
High income countries, United States and Western Europe
Of the 760,000 cancer deaths attributable to the nine factors, the most significant risk factors were smoking, alcohol, overweight and obesity.
Low to middle income regions
The nine risk factors caused 1.6 million cancer deaths in low and middle income regions of the world. The most significant factors in these global areas were: smoking, alcohol and low intake of fruits and vegetables. The most frequent cause of cervical cancer was by the sexual transmission of the human papillomavirus in areas like the Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia where access to cervical screenings is limited.
Ezzati concluded, “To win the war against cancer, we must focus not just on advances in bio-medical technologies, but also on technologies and policies that change the behaviors and environments that cause those cancers.”
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jrb5176
01/28/10 08:41
Who writes these articles? There are grammatical errors in nearly every article I've read on this site.
oldrunner
02/17/10 12:28
good
ClydeP
06/25/10 05:44
The most significant risk factor has not been addressed: Living long enough to get cancer. After all, deaths from polio, small pox, diptheria, typhus, cholera, tetanus, tuberculosis, malaria are much reduced from 50 years ago.
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