The study showed that Russians are dying from tumors that could have been prevented

Alcohol, tobacco, excess weight and tumors caused by HPV (this infection can cause cervical cancer in women) most often provoke the development of oncology in the future. This is stated in the largest study published in a scientific journal ClinicalMedicine.

The study reportedly included seven countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, the UK and the US – in 2020. Russian scientists from the European University in St. Petersburg (EUSP) also participated in the study.

Thus, researchers focused on tumors that could have been avoided. For Russia, scientists used data from Rosstat and Ministry of Health registers.

– Statistics showed: in 2020, in all seven countries, alcohol consumption caused 326.3 thousand deaths and 5.9 million years of lost life; smoking resulted in 1.3 million deaths and 20.8 million years of life lost; excess weight caused 208 thousand deaths and 3.1 million years of life lost; HPV infection – 190.4 thousand deaths and 4 million years of lost life. Together, these four factors accounted for 1.9 million cancer deaths and 30.4 million years of life lost. writes “Kommersant” with reference to research data.

Further, the study examines mortality situations using the example of individual countries. Thus, in 2020, the number of years of life lost from cancer caused by alcohol consumption was highest in China (548.2 thousand years per 100 thousand population) and in Russia (427.8 thousand), and lowest in the USA (161.5 thousand). Oncological diseases caused by smoking took the most years of life in China (1 million 882 thousand years per 100 thousand population) and Russia (1 million 671 thousand).

Diseases caused by excess body weight most affect Russia and the United States (660.7 thousand and 532.6 thousand, respectively). But the highest damage from HPV was recorded in South Africa (763.5 thousand years per 100 thousand); India was in second place, and Russia was in third (308.8 thousand). The greatest number of years of life lost due to alcohol use in China and the US was associated with liver cancer, and in the UK it was with colorectal cancer. In Russia, this indicator includes head and neck tumors, as well as breast cancer in women. In all countries except India, the highest mortality rate from lung cancer is associated with smoking.

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