Karen Canfell, Lead of Cancer Elimination Collaboration (CEC) at the University of Sydney, shared The Cancer Elimination Collaboration (CEC)’s post on LinkedIn, adding:
“This is such an important and topical global analysis. In 2022, 4 out of 10 cancers were preventable. This emphasises the need to prioritise research into, and implementation of, evidence-based primary and secondary prevention strategies including vaccination, health promotion, screening and early detection of symptomatic disease.
Congratulations Isabelle Soerjomataram, Andre Ilbawi and all involved!”
Quoting The Cancer Elimination Collaboration‘s post:
“Outstanding study out today led by our close collaborator Professor Isabelle Soerjomataram at IARC – International Agency for Research on Cancer / World Health Organization, showing that 4 in 10 cancer cases worldwide can be prevented.
Infections like HPV, hepatitis B and C and helicobacter pylori are the second leading modifiable cause of all cancers combined, after smoking. These infections can be controlled, through vaccination or other established interventions. The other risk factors can also be controlled through evidence-based policy and practice.
The study also observes that prevention and screening have been the major drivers of reduced cancer mortality over recent decades – despite huge underinvestment in research and interventions. We need to much more to invest in prevention and early detection and related research, not only into new interventions, but also ways to get established technology into practice.
World Cancer Day is an opportunity to emphasise that some of the greatest gains available in reduced cancer incidence will come from putting existing knowledge into practice.
Congratulations to Professor Soerjomataram and the team at IARC for their landmark study.”
Title: Global and regional cancer burden attributable to modifiable risk factors to inform prevention
Authors: Hanna Fink, Oliver Langselius, Jérôme Vignat, Harriet Rumgay, Jürgen Rehm, Ricardo X. Martinez, Marilina Santero, Lucero Lopez-Perez, Manami Inoue, Hongmei Zeng, Kevin Shield, Eileen Morgan, André Ilbawi and Isabelle Soerjomataram.
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