Millions of years of healthy life lost to cancer in 2008; Alcohol may be more damaging to lifespan than smoking; Multivitamins cut cancer risk in men by 8%

(October 20, 2012 - Insidermedicine Week in Review)

From France - A new report published in the Lancet estimates that over 160 million years of healthy life were lost to cancer in 2008. Researchers studied cancer registries worldwide, using disability-adjusted life years to calculate the amount of healthy lives lost due to both fatal and non-fatal cancers. They found that 169.3 million years were lost, with lung, breast, colorectal and prostate cancers accounting for 18-50% of the cancer burden

From Germany - Alcohol dependence may shorten lifespan more than smoking, according to a? report published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Researchers studied over 4,000 adults for 14 years, 149 of whom were alcohol dependent. Results showed that mean age at death for females dependent on alcohol was 60 and 58 for males, both of which are 20 years earlier than the general population.

From Boston - A new report presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting finds that daily multivitamins may lower risk of cancer in men. Researchers randomized over 15,000 men to take daily multivitamins or placebo for more than 10 years, and found that those taking the vitamins had a 8% reduction in cancer rates as well as a reduction in cancer deaths

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