Alcohol and overweight linked to 233 000 new cancer cases in the US in one year

Nearly 136 000 new cancer cases in the US in 2019 could be attributed to being overweight or obese, with alcohol consumption linked to another 97 000 cases, researchers from the American Cancer Society have said.1Using nationally representative data the research team estimated the proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors such as smoking, excess body weight, alcohol, diet, physical inactivity, ultraviolet radiation, and infections such as HIV and human papillomavirus.They found that in 2019, 40% of the around 1.8m new cancer cases (excluding non-melanoma skin cancers) and 44% of all cancer deaths (595 737) in US adults aged 30 years and older were attributable to at least one of the risk factors.Cigarette smoking topped the list, accounting for 19.3% of attributable cancer cases and 28.5% of deaths. This was followed by excess body weight (7.6% and 7.3%, respectively) and alcohol consumption (5.4%,…
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