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Asbestos and Cancer Burden
Results from the 2019 iteration of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) were published in The Lancet in August. The GBD uses disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) to estimate the burden of cancer attributable to more than 80 risk factors and reports results for males, females, and both genders combined. In addition to comparing changes in DALYs over the ten years from 2010 through 2019, the Lancet paper also describes differences in cancer burden through the lens of the GBD socio-demographic index (SDI), a measure of a country’s development that incorporates rankings of income per capita, educational attainment, and fertility rates. Results from the 2019 GBD appear below.
From “The Global Burden of Cancer Attributable to Risk Factors, 2010–19: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019”:
“[D]ifferent patterns in the leading risk factors for attributable cancer age-standardised DALY rates were observed globally and across the SDI spectrum [. . .]. The leading nine risk factors at the most detailed level contributing to global cancer burden defined by age-standardised DALY rates did not change between 2010 and 2019, and the top three risk factors (smoking, alcohol use, and high BMI) were the same in the high SDI quintile as globally.”
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SOURCE
The Lancet: “The Global Burden of Cancer Attributable to Risk Factors, 2010–19: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” (August 2022).