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We know that excess weight increases your risk, and we know that we’ve had a big increase in body weight in this country.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
They were established as risk factors in older cohorts of patients, but they do seem to be also associated with early-onset disease, and those are things like excess body weight, lack of physical activity, high consumption of processed meat and red meat, very high alcohol consumption.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Anecdotally, in conferences that I’ve attended, that is the word on the street: that most of these patients are very healthy. They’re not obese; they’re very active, we know that excess weight increases your risk, and we know that we’ve had a big increase in body weight in this country.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
But we were surprised by how fast it is happening, this report is very important because it not only provides a snapshot of the current colorectal cancer burden, but also a window to the future.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The obesity epidemic is probably contributing, but doesn't seem to be the sole cause.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This report is very important because it not only provides a snapshot of the current colorectal cancer burden, but also a window to the future.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Much of the decline in incidence in older aged adults is because of increased screening, but the cause for rising incidence in younger age groups is still unknown, the obesity epidemic is probably contributing, but doesn't seem to be the sole cause.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We have all this progress against smoking-related cancers but obesity is something that we're just probably seeing the tip of the iceberg now in terms of the influence on cancer.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you take lung cancer out of the mix, the drop was only 1.4%. It is truly the acceleration for lung cancer that is driving the record drop that we saw.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The racial gap in cancer mortality is continuing to narrow -- so it was that the cancer death rate in blacks was 33 % higher than in whites in the mid-1990s, and the current data now indicate it's 14 % higher -- so it's still higher, but the gap is narrowing, which is really good news.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The continued decline in the cancer death rate over the past 25 years is really good news and was a little bit of a surprise, only because the other leading causes of death in the US are starting to flatten. So we've been wondering if that's going to happen for cancer as well, but so far it hasn't.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It was surprising to see that the disparities by socioeconomic status are actually widening, wealth causes differences in exposure to risk factors and also access to high-quality cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There has not been as much progress for some of the more rare childhood cancers but they're harder to study because, again, they are rare so it's more difficult to make progress for cancers that aren't affecting very many kids.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The declines in mortality are driven by improvement in treatment which have been rapid, particularly for leukemia which represents almost a third of childhood cancers.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We really don't know much at all about what causes these cancers, we've had a great impact on mortality because of improvements in treatment and hopefully that will continue but I think there is room for improvement in understanding the etiology of these cancers and trying to prevent their occurrence.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Extending these improvements to underserved populations would accelerate a decline in death rates.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A lot of progress has been made, but there is more work to do.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The improvements in cancer prevention and early detection and treatment aren’t disseminated equally among the population, extending these improvements to underserved populations would accelerate a decline in death rates.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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