
Harriet Rumgay
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Cancer epidemiologist @IARCWHO @GLOBOCAN_GCO. Interests include #NoTobacco #AlcoholAndCancer #LiverCancer #Rstats #RLadies. Views my own
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03-10-2010 21:07:03
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Just published! American Cancer Society releases new data on proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the US. acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/ca… Farhad Islami, MD PhD Emily C. Marlow Blake Thomson Harriet Rumgay Alpa Patel Ahmedin Jemal OncoAlert


Published today CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians: Updated info on % & no. of cancer cases/deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the US. ~40% of cancer cases and half of cancer deaths were attributable to evaluated risk factors. American Cancer Society acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.33… pic.x.com/W3bxf4flmc

Despite the decrease in prevalence of #cigarettes 🚬 in previous decades in 🇺🇲, #smoking is still the leading risk factor contributing to 20% of new #Cancer cases and 30% of cancer #deaths overall. Congratulations Farhad Islami, MD PhD et al for this work.

Alcohol causes cancer. Yet few people know this🎗️ Our latest film 𝐀𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐨𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫: 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 ft Prof Linda Bauld explains: ➡️How alcohol causes cancer ➡️Public awareness ➡️Industry misinformation ➡️What would reduce cases youtube.com/watch?v=NAJ88Y…

🆕 #IARCpaper published in The Lancet Public Health, the first study of its kind, shows that more than 40% of all #LungCancer 🫁deaths could be avoided in people born in 2006-2010 if tobacco smoking🚬 were eliminated🚭. iarc.who.int/news-events/ba…





Our article on smokeless tobacco and areca nut has been used for the cover of the latest issue of The Lancet Oncology!😍 Very vivid image of the carcinogenic nature of chewing smokeless tobacco and areca nut! 🔗thelancet.com/journals/lanon…



IARC co-hosted side event on “Preventing #OralCancer: A Collaborative Global Approach to Early Detection & Risk Reduction” at World Health Organization (WHO) #GlobalOralHealthMeeting2024 in Bangkok,🇹🇭. Participants discussed awareness, tobacco, areca nut, #alcohol, #HPV, & detection iarc.who.int/news-events/ia…


