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Four in 10 cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths among U.S. adults 30 years old and older in 2019 were linked to “modifiable” risk factors like smoking, drinking, poor diet and not ...
Out of all the modifiable risk factors associated with cancer, the report highlighted excessive alcohol use as one with a strong impact: 5.4% of all cancer cases diagnosed in the U.S. in 2019 were ...
The study looked at how rates of 30 types of cancer compared to rates of 18 different modifiable risk factors (meaning ones that could be changed, such as activity level or HPV vaccination status ...
Over a third of cancer deaths worldwide (and about 75-80% of cancers in the United States [15]) are due to potentially modifiable risk factors. The leading modifiable risk factors worldwide are: [citation needed] tobacco smoking, which is strongly associated with lung cancer, mouth, and throat cancer;
Drinking alcoholic beverages is among the most common modifiable risk factors. [5] The International Agency for Research on Cancer has declared that there is sufficient scientific evidence to classify alcoholic beverages a Group 1 carcinogen that causes breast cancer in women. [2]
The increased risk is believed to be due to the random chance of developing any cancer, the likelihood of surviving the first cancer, the same risk factors that produced the first cancer, unwanted side effects of treating the first cancer (particularly radiation therapy), and better compliance with screening. [205]
Recent research has shown that, in 19 out of 30 types of cancer, nearly half of all cases in the United States are linked to modifiable risk factors. A significant proportion of these cancer cases ...
Since that time the literature includes examples of research using molecular genetics to make inference about modifiable risk factors, which is the essence of MR. One example is the work of Gerry Lower and colleagues in 1979 who used the N-acetyltransferase phenotype as an anchor to draw inference about various exposures including smoking and ...
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