The Canadian Population Attributable Risk of Cancer (ComPARe) study estimates the number and percentage of cancer cases in Canada caused by preventable lifestyle, environmental and infectious agent risk factors. The ComPARe study also estimates how changes to these risk factors through prevention could affect the number of cancer cases in the future.
Keeping your New Year’s resolution to lose weight could dramatically reduce future cases of cancer
Reducing the number of overweight and obese Canadians by 50 per cent could potentially prevent a cumulative 59,829 cases of cancer by 2042, according to University of Calgary researcher Darren Brenner, PhD, who is part of a collaborative group from multiple institutions across Canada working together on the Canadian Population Attributable Risk of Cancer Project (ComPARe). “Our…
Tens of thousands of cancer cases could be prevented with weight loss, research suggests
Putting down that doughnut could save your life, at least according to a new research project that includes researchers from the University of Calgary. The research, part of the Canadian Population Attributable Risk of Cancer Project (COMPARE), looked at how many cases of cancer could be avoided over the next few decades if Canadians lost…
Predicted rise in Canadian obesity rate may lead to higher cancer burden
AUSTIN, Texas — Reducing the number of overweight and obese Canadians by 50 percent could potentially prevent a cumulative 59,829 cases of cancer by 2042, according to estimates presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Special Conference Obesity and Cancer: Mechanisms Underlying Etiology and Outcomes, held Jan. 27-30. “Cancer is the leading cause of…