Over 30 cancer cases a day linked to inactivity and excess weight: Aussie data
Diagnoses linked to physical inactivity have tripled, in updated estimates from epidemiologist Professor Brigid Lynch.
More than 11,600 cases of cancer a year in Australia are associated with people being overweight or physically inactive, an oncology conference has heard.
About 17 diagnoses a day are linked to inactivity, and 14 cases a day associated with obesity and overweight, researchers told the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia’s (COSA) annual scientific meeting in Melbourne, 1-3 November.
Cancer Australia’s head of Cancer Control Strategy, dietitian Associate Professor Anna Boltong, said that one-third of cancers were preventable.
Professor Boltong said overweight or obesity was related to more than 5300 cases a year, with good nutrition an essential part of prevention, treatment and survivorship.
