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Just published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians 📕 Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, 2019 https://lnkd.in/egQ7cfED This new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society finds four in 10 cancer cases and about one-half of all cancer deaths in adults 30 years old and older in the United States (or 713,340 cancer cases and 262,120 cancer deaths in 2019) could be attributed to modifiable risk factors, including cigarette smoking, excess body weight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, diet, and infections. Cigarette smoking was by far the leading risk factor, contributing to nearly 20% of all cancer cases and 30% of all cancer deaths. “Despite considerable declines in smoking prevalence during the past few decades, the number of lung cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking in the United States is alarming. This finding underscores the importance of implementing comprehensive tobacco control policies in each state to promote smoking cessation, as well as heightened efforts to increase screening for early detection of lung cancer, when treatment could be more effective,” said Dr. Farhad Islami, senior scientific director, cancer disparity research at the American Cancer Society and lead author of the report, in a press release. Emily Marlow Blake Thomson Harriet Rumgay Susan Gapstur Alpa Patel Isabelle Soerjomataram Ahmedin Jemal
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We appreciate your work to help convince the public that many cancers can be prevented through diet exercise and refraining from smoking and alcohol. Thanks to all the researchers. Helping to prevent cancer must be a bipartisan goal. This report must be a call for all of us to help each other prevent this terrible disease. Too many lives have been cut short and too many memories missed. Education and health policy at the local, state and national level must be taken to the next level. I emplore all of those in positions of influence to focus on what matters to us…pursuing our dreams and passions with our friends and loved ones. #cancerresearch #patientsfirst #cancerpolicy #hope
With early onset cancers becoming more common, paying attention to preventable cancer tends is so important. When modifiable behaviors are considered risk factors, the responsibility for change is usually on the individual. Kudos to the authors for highlighting several opportunities for community and policy level change!
Another very important factor I believe is insecticides and pesticides in our food and water. Is there any way to quantify it?
Would love to see a journal article on this same topic after 2019
Very informative 👍
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1moWhat about environmental factors? Glyphosate, the key ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup® is not only used as a herbicide and has poisoned our soil but it is increasingly sprayed on crops like wheat, oats, and beans days prior to harvest to desiccate the plants so harvest operations are easier and can be started earlier. Pre-harvest use results in much higher residues of glyphosate in our foods. To address this increase in residues, regulators have consistently raised the legal limits of glyphosate on food crops… What about our food supply? - In meat and milk, hormones are added through production. Steroid hormones are given to beef cattle to make them grow faster, build more muscle and make their meat leaner ($$). Two-thirds of all cattle and about 90 percent of the cattle on feedlots in the United States are given hormones. I would like to see more quantitative studies and journals documenting the effects of this! For those of us who have zero risk factors that we can modify, zero genetic mutations- where else did it come from? I’m 48 years old just diagnosed with hormone positive invasive breast cancer - don’t tell me environmental and food didn’t play a role!