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Share of cancer deaths attributed to risk factors, 2016

Risk factors include known risks such as smoking, diet and nutrition, obesity, lack of physical activity, alcohol consumption, air pollution, and environmental exposures.
The remaining share therefore represents deaths which would be expected to have occurred in the absence of these known risk factors.

0%20%40%60%80%100%Cervical cancer100%Mesothelioma91.4%Tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer84.1%Larynx cancer71.8%Esophageal cancer69.8%Lip and oral cavity cancer69.8%Nasopharynx cancer64%Colon and rectum cancer53.2%Liver cancer41.5%Uterine cancer36.5%Kidney cancer32.3%Bladder cancer32%Pancreatic cancer27.5%Breast cancer26.8%Stomach cancer18.4%Gallbladder and biliary tract cancer15%Leukemia14.8%Ovarian cancer12.3%Thyroid cancer9.4%Multiple myeloma6.8%Non-Hodgkin lymphoma5.1%Prostate cancer4.4%Hodgkin lymphoma0%Brain and nervous system cancer0%Testicular cancer0%Malignant skin melanoma0%Non-melanoma skin cancer0%

Source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease

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