Nine Risk Factors Account for One Third of World’s Cancer Deaths

• Date: November 04, 2009
• Source: www.cancer.org

Harvard School of Public Health and other institutions have zeroed in on Nine Risk Factors as responsible for one-third of cancer deaths across the globe. This has been arrived after studying several research papers and survey findings including WHO’s Comparative Risk Assessment project. It entails a full impact study of these factors on 12 different types of cancers based on age, gender and geography. Smoking and Alcohol consumption have been found to be the most damaging.