The ten-year study of scientists from Australia has helped to better understand the nature of such dangerous diseases as bowel cancer, reports MedicalXpress. Experts managed to find out what reasons cause the tendency to develop this type of cancer ailments, and also to find a way to prevent it.
Participants in this project were 370 thousand Australians aged 18 to 100 years – they were the object of observation in seven research projects. After analyzing these studies, information, specialists have discovered how the relationship between the incidence of colon cancer with the floor of people. In particular, it was found that in General, for men this disease is more typical than for women.
The authors of the study stated: the development of colon cancer can provoke four reasons: overweight, obesity, Smoking and alcohol.
“In women overweight and obesity is not so closely correlated with colon cancer as men,” said while the Australian biologists.
According to co-sponsor this project, associate Professor Claire Vajdic, the recommendations of scientists about ways to prevent cancer may seem trivial, but they are the most effective to prevent colon cancer should not smoke, avoid overeating and alcohol abuse.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that scientists developed a drug for the treatment of one of the most insidious and deadly types of cancer – pancreatic cancer.