4 AUGUST 2009, Cancer Research UK Press Release
Ninety-seven per cent of people dont list being overweight as a cancer risk, according to a Cancer Research UK survey out today Tuesday.
After smoking, being overweight or obese is one of the biggest cancer risks.
But in a survey of nearly 4,000 people, only three per cent mentioned keeping a healthy bodyweight as something people could do to reduce their risk of cancer.
And seven per cent of those surveyed failed to name a single positive change people could make to help to prevent the disease.
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The reluctance of men to adopt a healthy lifestyle and visit the doctor may be fuelling a gender gap in cancer cases and deaths, experts say.
Among cancers which affect both sexes, men are 60% more likely to develop the disease and 70% more likely to die from it, Cancer Research UK said.
There is no known biological reason for this but it may be because women take better care of themselves, they said.
Experts said men needed to be made aware of the risks they faced.
It is thought half of all cancers …

The UK public is deeply sceptical about scientific claims for what causes or prevents cancer, a poll suggests.
The YouGov survey of 2,400 people for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) found more than half thought scientists were always changing their minds. More than a quarter said health advice changed constantly and the best approach was to ignore it completely. But the WCRF said its advice, including eating more fruit and vegetables, had stayed the same for more than a decade.
The WCRF says that most scientists agree about the …

People who regularly eat very well-done red meat that is burned or charred may increase their risk of pancreatic cancer by almost 60 percent, according to a study by a University of Minnesota cancer researcher.
Kristin Anderson, Ph.D., associate professor and cancer epidemiologist with the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health and Masonic Cancer Center, led the research team on this study. She presented the findings Tuesday at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research in Denver.
“I’ve focused my research on pancreatic cancer for some time …

Almost 19,000 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with cancer that could have been prevented if they were a healthy weight, an expert says.
Professor Martin Wiseman said if everyone had a body mass index (BMI) under 25 it would make a big dent in the incidence of cancer.
Cancers of the breast, bowel, kidney, pancreas, oesophagus and womb lining are among those linked to obesity.
Professor Wiseman is an adviser for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).
The WCRF recommends that people try to be as lean as possible without becoming …

 
There was a time when red meat was a luxury for ordinary Americans, or was at least something special: cooking a roast for Sunday dinner, ordering a steak at a restaurant. Not anymore. Meat consumption has more than doubled in the United States in the last 50 years.
Now a new study of more than 500,000 Americans has provided the best evidence yet that our affinity for red meat has exacted a hefty price on our health and limited our longevity.
The study found that, other things being equal, the men and …