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Healthy lifestyle and cancer survival: A multinational cohort study

Zi-Long Bian, Rong Zhang, S. Yuan, Rong Fan, Lijuan Wang, S. Larsson, E. Theodoratou, Yimin Zhu et al.

International Journal of Cancer, 2024

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Abstract

Lifestyle factors after a cancer diagnosis could influence the survival of cancer 60 survivors. To examine the independent and joint associations of healthy lifestyle factors with mortality outcomes among cancer survivors, four prospective cohorts (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey [NHANES], National Health Interview Survey [NHIS], UK Biobank [UKB] and Kailuan study) across three countries. A healthy lifestyle score (HLS) was defined based on five common lifestyle factors (smoking, alcohol drinking, diet, physical activity and body mass index) that related to cancer survival. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to estimate the hazard ratios (HRs) for the associations of individual lifestyle factors and HLS with all‐cause and cancer mortality among cancer survivors. During the follow‐up period of 37,095 cancer survivors, 8927 all‐cause mortality events were accrued in four cohorts and 4449 cancer death events were documented in the UK and US cohorts. Never smoking (adjusted HR = 0.77, 95% CI: 0.69–0.86), light alcohol consumption (adjusted HR = 0.86, 95% CI: 0.82–0.90), adequate physical activity (adjusted HR = 0.90, 95% CI: 0.85–0.94), a healthy diet (adjusted HR = 0.69, 95% CI: 0.61–0.78) and optimal BMI (adjusted HR = 0.89, 95% CI: 0.85–0.93) were significantly associated with a lower risk of all‐cause mortality. In the joint analyses of HLS, the HR of all‐cause and cancer mortality for cancer survivors with a favorable HLS (4 and 5 healthy lifestyle…

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