Nine Risk Factors Causing Rise in Global Cancer Deaths

Nine Risk Factors Causing Rise in Global Cancer Deaths January 26, 2010 Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health working in collaboration with other World Health authorities identified specific risk factors that were linked to 12 common cancers found around the world. They found that of the 7 million world wide cancer deaths in 2001, 35% of those deaths were could be attributed to nine well known behavioral and environmental risk factors. Majid Ezzati senior author of the study and an assist professor at Harvard stated, "These results clearly show that many globally important types of cancer are preventable by changes in lifestyle behaviors and environmental interventions." Her group discovered these nine risk factors explained the death of over 2 million cancer deaths world wide which could have been prevented. Read More    Children with TV or Computer Sleep Less    Kids Prefer Large Portions    The Secret To a Sound MInd To unsubscribe or change subscriber options  click here .

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