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The cancer prevention and early detection and
2011 its an annual publication
of the American Cancer Society and it is the most comprehensive
publication on cancer risk factors suggest smoking
obesity environmental ultraviolet radiation exposure
as well as the use of cancer
early detection test for breast cervical
and colorectal cancer screening with tobacco we are seeing that now
we have stall smoking rates among adults and adolescents have changed
very little
and this is a little troubling since we've known that we've made
incredible progress in smoking reduction since the 60s
but that these reasons trends in installing of tobacco
indicates that perhaps we need to strengthen
our tobacco control strategies and opportunities
and look at new ways that we can address
certain gaps in expanding our
approaches to tobacco control in many communities
that still we have not yet made important
in facts another important finding in the cancer prevention and early
detection report is it relates to
obesity we know that obesity plays an important role
in cancer mortality and so what we're seeing
in terms of the finances that 18 percent of adolescents are obese
and 34 percent of adults are obese
they data in the report now indicates that
mammography usage has remained
unchanged therefore that means that we're really not progressing that much
and other aspect of cancer screening that was still
there still remains a lot to be done is on colorectal cancer screening
we have on the positive side important
trending upwards in the uptake of colorectal cancer screening
but their current levels are still indicate that it's about that
two-thirds of adults 50 and older who have gotten
a colorectal cancer screening in order to continue our progress what we need to do
is figure out
better systematic and coordinated ways in which we can effect
action in cancer prevention and control