'Smoking, alcohol use, high BMI linked to almost half of global cancer deaths'

The study suggested that global cancer deaths due to these risk factors increased by an estimated 20.4% between 2010 and 2019, and differed considerably based on countries' level of development. Half of all male cancer deaths in 2019 (50.6%, or 2.88 million) were due to estimated risk factors, compared with over one-third of all female cancer deaths (36.3%, or 1.58 million), it said.

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