Preventing thyroid cancer and losing weight are "top priorities"!

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Introduction: Prevention of thyroid cancer should start with weight loss, especially for men
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 Recently, a study led by Dr.
Maarit Laaksonen from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia, to assess the future burden of thyroid cancer found that overweight/obesity is an important cause of thyroid cancer.
Timely weight loss intervention will approach 10% in the future.
Thyroid cancer is avoidable
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The research results were published in the International Journal of Cancer (IF: 7.
396)
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Excessive body fat is an important risk factor for thyroid cancer.
Dr.
Laaksonen pointed out that body fat is an important risk factor for thyroid cancer and has a direct causal relationship with the incidence
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Over the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity in Australia has doubled, with a staggering 75% and 60% of Australian men and women overweight or obese
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It is predicted that over the next 10 years, one in five thyroid cancers in Australia will be attributable to current overweight/obesity
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 Thyroid cancer risk is more obvious in obese men.
Previous data shows that the incidence of thyroid cancer in women is 2-3 times that of men.
Men tend to take this so-called "lazy cancer" lightly
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 But Dr Laaksonen reminded that two in five thyroid cancers in men and one in ten women in Australia are inextricably linked to overweight/obesity
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In other words, the future burden of thyroid cancer caused by overweight/obesity will be more pronounced in men
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 Thyroid cancer prevention, weight loss should be a top priority This study of seven Australian cohort studies involving a total of 370,000 participants estimated the strength of the association between overweight and obesity and thyroid cancer
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The data showed that the burden of thyroid cancer caused by obesity was 21.
4% in men and 10.
1% in women
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More importantly, with timely weight loss intervention, nearly 10% of thyroid cancers in the future can be avoided
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 In conclusion, the prevention of thyroid cancer should prioritize avoiding overweight (especially obesity)
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 References: [1] Maarit A.
Laaksonen, Robert J.
MacInnis, Karen Canfell, Jonathan E.
Shaw, Dianna J.
Magliano, Emily Banks, Graham G.
Giles, Julie E.
Byles, Tiffany K.
Gill, Paul Mitchell, Vasant Hirani, Robert G.
Cumming, Claire M.
Vajdic.
Thyroid cancers potentially preventable by reducing overweight and obesity in Australia: a pooled cohort study.
International Journal of Cancer, 2021; DOI: 10.
1002/ijc.
33889[2]University of New South Wales.
"One in five future thyroid cancers linked to excess weight.
" ScienceDaily.
ScienceDaily, 9 December 2021.