• DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67725-2
Corpus ID: 17354479

Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors

@article{Danaei2005CausesOC,
  title={Causes of cancer in the world: comparative risk assessment of nine behavioural and environmental risk factors},
  author={G. Danaei and S. Hoorn and A. Lopez and C. Murray and M. Ezzati},
  journal={The Lancet},
  year={2005},
  volume={366},
  pages={1784-1793}
}

G. Danaei, S. Hoorn, +2 authors M. Ezzati

Published 2005

Medicine

The Lancet

INTRODUCTION With respect to reducing mortality, advances in cancer treatment have not been as effective as those for other chronic diseases; effective screening methods are available for only a few cancers. Primary prevention through lifestyle and environmental interventions remains the main way to reduce the burden of cancers. In this report, we estimate mortality from 12 types of cancer attributable to nine risk factors in seven World Bank regions for 2001. METHODS We analysed data from… CONTINUE READING

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