2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Despite the great efforts and advances of science in its fight against serious diseases, a recent study published by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States revealed that the number of people who have died due to liver cancer increased. by 43 percent between 2000 and 2016.
According to a report shared by CNN's online site, the numbers in the report are quite surprising to experts, because although cancer mortality has been declining, the study showed that many more people in the country are developing cancer. liver.
The information revealed in the study adds that in more than 70% of cases of this type of cancer they are developed due to factors such as obesity, excessive consumption of cigarettes and alcoholic beverages, as the chain assured the Dr. Farhad Islami, a member of the group of scientists who monitor studies of the disease at the American Cancer Society.
"I think the main reason for the increase in liver cancer statistics in the United States is related to excess weight and hepatitis C," Islami added in his comment on the recent study that set off alarms in the world of cancer. medicine.
The report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention adds that this increase in the number of people who have died from the disease has been reflected in both men and women over 25, including the white, African American and Latino population.
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