Half of U.S. Cancer Deaths Due to Bad Habits, Study Finds - NBC News
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As many as 40 percent of cancer cases, and half of cancer deaths, come down to things people could easily change, researchers said Thursday.
While Americans often worry about whether chemicals, pollution or other factors out of their control cause cancer, the new analysis shows otherwise: People are firmly in charge of much of their own risk of cancer.
The team at Harvard Medical School calculated that 20 to 40 percent of cancer cases, and half of cancer deaths, could be prevented if people quit smoking, avoided heavy drinking, kept a healthy weight, and got just a half hour a day of moderate exercise.
They used data from long-term studies of about 140,000 health professionals who update researchers on their health every two years for the analysis, published in the_ Journal of the American Medical Association’s JAMA Oncology_.
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“Finally, from a policy perspective, it is important to consider actions such as cigarette taxes; subsidies on fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; quality physical education in schools; and more broadly, efforts to reduce income disparity, which is a major cause of cancer disparities.”
#reduce_income_disparity
C’est ainsi, au détour d’une étude qu’on découvre que la Faculté de médecine de Harvard est devenue un repère de communistes !
