过去5年不健康生活方式或致60万人患癌

  近日，一项来自英国癌症研究中心的数据显示，在过去5年里，如果人们保持健康的生活方式，大约会有60万人免于遭受癌症；研究者Harpal Kumar指出，我们都知道英国削减仅1%的吸烟率每年就可以挽救3000人的生命，但改变人们的生活习惯却并不容易，这就是为何我们进行大量的投资来研究如何帮助人们制定健康的生活习惯来降低他们在晚年的癌症风险。
  文章中，研究者Max Parkin说道，毫无疑问，选择特定的生活方式对癌症风险具有较大的影响，而全世界的研究者都在聚焦进行相同关键风险因子的研究；每个人都希望在圣诞节期间随心所欲地干自己喜欢的事情，因此我们并不想禁止大家在节日期间不要吃肉馅儿饼及喝酒，而是鼓励大家去思考一下如何在2015年改变自己的饮食习惯及生活方式。
  来自利物浦的Justine Sheils在其年轻的时候经常进行日光浴，从而使其后来不得不移除身上5个癌症病灶。她说道，当我们十几岁甚至20几岁的时候并不知道日光浴的危害，我一般在节假日进行日光浴，随后利用太阳灯浴床保持全身全年处于黝黑色，而这种风格在当时是非常流行的；但诊断为黑色素瘤给了我一个警醒，如今我进行了5次手术来移除机体的多种癌症病灶，而且我会每隔几个月进行检查；于是现在我坚持每天锻炼，保持健康的饮食习惯。
  目前因为包括机体基因及生活方式等多种因子引发的癌症超过了200多种，而且已经证明可以通过某些方式来减少癌症风险，比如戒烟、多运动、少喝酒以及保持健康的体重等；如果没有研究人员主动去帮助改变人们的生活方式，那么每年有成千上万的人们会被诊断出患有可预防的癌症；研究人员希望投资更多的健康运动来帮助人们减少癌症的风险，同时研究人员也相信未来人们会越来越关注自己的生活方式从而保持机体的健康。（转化医学网360zhyx.com）
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Nearly 600,000 cancer cases in the UK could have been avoided in the last five years if people had healthier lifestyles according to new Cancer Research UK figures announced today (Friday)*.
“We know that cutting UK smoking rates by just one per cent could save 3,000 lives a year. But changing our habits isn’t easy. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to invest in more research so we can learn the best ways to help people make healthier choices to reduce their cancer risk in later life." - Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK
Overall, experts say that more than four in 10 cancers could be prevented by changes to lifestyle. With health services already overstretched and people living longer, prevention is vital to tackle cancer head on.
Smoking remains by far the biggest preventable cause of cancer in the UK, accounting for more than 314,000 cases in the past five years - nearly a fifth of all cancers. So giving up cigarettes would be the best New Year resolution smokers could make.
But the charity’s new figures show a further 145,000 cases could have been prevented if people had eaten a healthy balanced diet low in red and processed meat and salt, and high in vegetables, fruit and fibre. Keeping a healthy weight could have prevented around 88,000 cases.
Cutting down on alcohol, protecting skin in the sun and taking more exercise could also have helped prevent tens of thousands of people in the UK developing cancer in the past five years.
Professor Max Parkin, a Cancer Research UK statistician based at Queen Mary University of London (link is external), whose landmark study formed the basis of these latest figures, said: “There’s now little doubt that certain lifestyle choices can have a big impact on cancer risk, with research around the world all pointing to the same key risk factors.
“Of course everyone enjoys some extra treats during the Christmas holidays so we don’t want to ban mince pies and wine but it’s a good time to think about taking up some healthy habits for 2015. Leading a healthy lifestyle can’t guarantee someone won’t get cancer but we can stack the odds in our favour by taking positive steps now that will help decrease our cancer risk in future.”......