“To our knowledge, this study represents the largest effort to date to determine the global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, and it provides a measure of the risk-attributable burden for specific cancers at a national, international level. This contributes to a growing body of evidence aimed at assessing globally,” said Dr. D., director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. Chris Murray and his colleagues wrote in the study.
The project collects and analyzes global data on death and disability. Murray and colleagues looked at cancer deaths and disability in 204 countries from 2010 to 2019, examining 23 types of cancer and 34 risk factors.
major cancers The researchers found that tracheal, bronchus and lung cancers were among the most common exposure deaths globally in 2019 for both men and women.
The data also showed that deaths from risk-attributable cancer are on the rise, with a worldwide increase of 20.4% from 2010 to 2019. Globally, in 2019, the top five regions in terms of risk-attributable mortality were Central Europe, East Asia, and North America. Americas, Southern Latin America and Western Europe.
“These findings suggest that a substantial proportion of the cancer burden globally has potential for prevention through interventions aimed at reducing the risk of known cancer risk factors, but also through the control of currently estimated risk factors.” A large proportion of the cancer burden through cancer may not be avoidable,” the researchers wrote. “Thus, cancer risk reduction efforts should be combined with comprehensive cancer control strategies that include efforts to support early diagnosis and effective treatment.”
The new study “clearly illustrates” the importance of primary cancer prevention and “the growing number of obesity-related cancers clearly demands our attention,” said Dr. William Dahut, chief scientific officer of the American Cancer Society. were not involved in the study. , wrote in an email to CNN.
“Behavior modifying could save millions more lives than any drug ever approved,” he wrote, “despite nearly 65 years of cancer-associated use of tobacco.” The effect is very problematic.”
Although tobacco use in the United States is lower than in other countries, tobacco-related cancer deaths remain a major problem and disproportionately affect some states, Dahut wrote.
“Furthermore, it is no secret that a dramatic increase in average BMI along with alcohol use will lead to a significant increase in cancer deaths,” Dahut said. “Ultimately, cancer screening is especially important for those who are at risk as we move into a world where screening is accurate and adaptable.”
In an editorial published with the new study in The Lancet, Dr. Diana Safarti and Jason Gurney of the Te Aho o Te Kahu Cancer Control Agency in New Zealand write that preventable risk factors associated with cancer are modeled according to poverty.
“Poverty affects the environment in which people live, and those environments shape the lifestyle decisions that people are able to make. Preventing cancer requires concerted effort within and outside the health sector. This action includes specific policies focused on reducing the risk of cancer—risk factors such as tobacco and alcohol use, and access to vaccinations that prevent cancer-causing infections, including hepatitis B and HPV. Gurney wrote.
“Primary prevention of cancer through the elimination or mitigation of modifiable risk factors is our best hope for reducing the future burden of cancer,” they wrote. “Reducing this burden will improve health and wellbeing, and reduce the compounding effect on humans and fiscal resource pressure within cancer services and the wider health sector.”
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