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Identifying Novel Causes of Cancers to Enhance Cancer Prevention: New Strategies Are Needed by Paul Brennan; George Davey-Smith is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Identifying Novel Causes of Cancers to Enhance Cancer Prevention: New Strategies Are Needed about?
## Abstract The burden of cancer from a clinical, societal, and economic viewpoint continues to increase in all parts of the world, along with much debate regarding how to confront this. Projected increases in cancer indicate a 50% increase in the number of cases over the next 2 decades, with the greatest proportional increase in low- and medium-income settings. In contrast to the historic high cancer burden due to viral and bacterial infections in these regions, future increases are expected to be due to cancers linked to westernization including breast, colorectum, lung, and prostate cancer. Identifying the reasons underlying these increases will be paramount to informing prevention efforts. Evidence from epidemiological and laboratory studies conducted in high-income countries over the last 70 years has led to the conclusion that approximately 40% of the cancer burden is explained by known risk factors—the 2 most important being tobacco and obesity in that order—raising the question of what is driving the rest of the cancer burden. International cancer statistics continue to show that approximately 80% of the cancer burden in high-income countries could be preventable in princip
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- Author
- Paul Brennan; George Davey-Smith
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)