It's not just 負かす/撃墜する to 運命/宿命: How simple lifestyle changes can 妨げる four in 10 癌 事例/患者s

  • Smoking 誘発する/引き起こすs nearly 20% of 癌s, new 熟考する/考慮する 明らかにする/漏らすs
  • 2,700 癌s could be 避けるd if women breastfed

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Deadly drag: Smoking is the biggest 原因(となる) of 癌, 誘発する/引き起こすing more than 19.4per cent of 事例/患者s

Making small lifestyle changes could 妨げる more than four in ten 癌s, によれば a major 熟考する/考慮する.

Scientists have calculated that at least 134,000 事例/患者s 診断するd in Britain last year were 誘発する/引き起こすd by 原因(となる)s such as smoking, obesity, poor diet, alcohol or even not breastfeeding.

They say that although many of us are 辞職するd to the belief that getting 癌 is just 負かす/撃墜する to 運命/宿命, tweaking our lifestyle can 劇的な 減ずる our 半端物s.

研究員s analysed hundreds of 熟考する/考慮するs on the 原因(となる)s of the most ありふれた forms of the 病気 to work out how many were the result of lifestyle or 環境の factors.

They calculated that 40 per cent of 癌s in women were preventable compared with 45 per cent in men.

Smoking was by far the biggest 原因(となる). 研究員s calculated it was 責任がある nearly 61,000 cas es 診断するd last year, nearly a fifth of the total.

同様に as 存在 the main 原因(となる) of 肺 癌, the 熟考する/考慮する 設立する it 大いに 増加するd the 危険 of many other forms of the 病気, 含むing those 影響する/感情ing the mouth, throat, bowel, 肝臓, 腎臓, bladder and cervix.

< p>Poor diet, which 含むd too much red meat or salt or not enough fruit, vegetables or fibre was 責任がある 9 per cent of 事例/患者s ? nearly 30,000 a year ? the 熟考する/考慮する, published in the British 定期刊行物 of 癌, 設立する.

Obesity was 設立する to be 責任がある 5 per cent of all 癌s ? more than 17,000 a year ? the 大多数 影響する/感情ing the bowel? and breast.

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殺し屋 food: Poor diet is 責任がある 9per cent of 癌s, によれば a new 熟考する/考慮する

But the scientists 収容する/認める this is a ‘保守的な’ 見積(る) as it is likely that 超過 fat may 誘発する/引き起こす many other tumours, 含むing prostate.

Alcohol led to 4 per cent of 事例/患者s, 12,500 a year, 含むing bowel, breast, mouth and throat, the 熟考する/考慮する by the Universities of London and Oxford 設立する.

The 研究員s said that while it was unrealistic to tell the public to 可決する・採択する perfectly healthy lifestyles, they could 大いに ‘攻撃する the 半端物s’ of 癌 by changing habits.

Professor Max Parkin said: ‘It is (疑いを)晴らす that around 40 per cent are 原因(となる)d by things we mostly have the 力/強力にする to change.’

He 追加するd that it in 未来 it was likely that scientists would discover that many more 癌s are preventable as they learn more about 原因(となる)s.

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Solar 放射(能) from sunbeds was 設立する to be 責任がある 3.5 per cent of 事例/患者s ? which were all? 肌 癌. A person’s 職業 was 設立する to be 責任がある 3.7 per cent of 事例/患者s.

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全体にわたる 42.9 癌s were 設立する to be avoidable, which is about 134,000 of all 314,251 事例/患者s 診断するd in Britain last year.

Dr Harpal Kumar of 癌 研究 said: ‘Most healthcare systems in the world are spending disproportiona te levels of 資源s. There is a strong 事例/患者 to be made for more 資源s 存在 spent on 予防.’

Dr Rachel Thompson, of the World 癌 研究 基金, said: ‘We hope this helps to raise 認識/意識性 that 癌 is not 簡単に a question of 運命/宿命 and that people can make changes today that can 減ずる their 危険.’

Sir Richard Thompson, 大統領,/社長 of the 王室の College of 内科医s, said: ‘These 人物/姿/数字s are a wake-up call to the 政府 to take stronger 活動/戦闘 on public health.

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‘The rising incidence of preventable 癌s shows that the “carrot” approach of voluntary 協定s with 産業 is not enough to 誘発する healthy behaviours, and needs to be 取って代わるd by the “stick” approach of 法律を制定する 解答s.’

Women who have mammograms halve their 危険 of death from breast 癌, says a 熟考する/考慮する.

The greatest 削減 was in women 老年の 70 to 75, where it was 84 per cent. の中で those 50 to 69, the 削減(する) was 39 per cent.

研究員s 観察するd 755 患者s who died from breast 癌 during 1995 to 2003 and matched them with 3,739 支配(する)/統制するs.

They 設立する 29.8 per cen t of 癌s were 設立する at 審査, 34.3 per cent between 審査s while 35.9 per cent had not been 審査するd.

The 熟考する/考慮する was in 癌 Epidemiology, Biomarkers and 予防, a 定期刊行物 of the American 協会 for 癌 研究.

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