Approximately 4.45 million cancer deaths in 2019 were caused by smoking, alcohol consumption,being overweightand other known risk factors New research suggests that
This study explored how a list of 34 risk factors contributed to cancer mortality and ill-health globally, regionally, and nationally across age groups, gender, and over time. This is the first study to estimate whether
According to this study, 4.45 million people account for 44.4% of all cancer deaths worldwide. However, data suggests that cancer deaths in the UK from risk factors are above the global average at 49.7%.
Dr. Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Measurement and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said:
" Smoking continues to be the leading risk factor for cancer globally, with a range of other factors contributing to the cancer burden.
" Our findings will help policy makers and researchers identify key risk factors that can be targeted in efforts to reduce cancer deaths and ill health locally, nationally and globally. Behavioral risk factors such as
smoking,alcohol use, unsafe sex and diet was responsible for most of the cancer burden in A study found that 3.7 million people had died.
Using the 2019 Global Burden of Disease, Injury and Risk Factors (GBD) study, the researchers compared his 23 cancer deaths and ill health in 2019 to 34 We investigated how behavioral, metabolic, environmental, and occupational risk factors contributed.
Cancer burden estimates were based on deaths and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs).
According to this study, the risk factors included in the analysis accounted for 105 million cancer DALYs worldwide in 2019, representing 42% of all DALYs for that year. Equivalent to
Researchers found that tracheal, bronchial, and lung cancers are the leading causes of risk-attributable cancer deaths among men women worldwide, with It was found to account for 36.9% of all cancer-related deaths. cause.
Among men, colorectal cancer (13.3%), esophageal cancer (9.7%), gastric cancer (6.6%), cervical cancer (17.9%), and colorectal cancer (15.8%) followed. . ) and female breast cancer (11%).
Between 2010 and 2019, cancer deaths due to risk factors increased by 20.4% globally, from 3.7 million to 4.45 million.
Dr. Lisa Force, Assistant Professor of Health Indicator Science at her IHME at the University of Washington School of Medicine, said: A comprehensive cancer control strategy that also supports early diagnosis and effective treatment.
Professor Diana Sarfati and Dr. Jason Gurney of the University of Otago, New Zealand, who were not involved in the study, said in a linked comment: Risk factors are our best hope for reducing the future burden of cancer.
Don't miss the latest news from across Scotland and beyond. - Sign up for our daily newsletter here .
