Cancer Deaths Related to Behavioral Risk Factors, Study Says DeutscheWelle: Africa
risk factors such as tobacco consumption, alcohol consumption and high BMIThe study attributed 44.4% of global cancer deaths in the year 2019 to a group of risk factors which included behavioral choices.
Researchers found 34 risk factors, with smoking, drinking and obesity taking the lead. Smoking alone was responsible for some 33.9% of cancer cases. Findings were based on studying the cases of 10 million people who died in 2019 from 23 different types of cancer. "The burden of cancer remains an important public health challenge that is growing in magnitude around the world," said Christopher Murray, a co-senior author of the study.The study also concluded that causes of cancer deaths varied based on the location and Socio-Demographic Index of the countries where patients reside.
In lower income countries, factors such as smoking, unsafe sex and alcohol use highly impacted cancer patients' life expectancy.Sub-Saharan Africa, metabolic risks were also quite influentialThe study said in its findings that while its results point at the possibility of preventing a significant number of cancer deaths through controlling behavioral factors, other factors could not be as easily handled.
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