Despite encouraging trends in control of tobacco smoking, progress in reducing use of smokeless tobacco and areca nut products has stalled and should be prioritized, the cancer agency said.
“Smokeless tobacco and areca nut products are available to consumers in many different forms across the world, but consuming smokeless tobacco and areca nut is linked to multiple diseases, including oral cancer ,” Harriet Rumgay, PhD, a scientist in the Cancer Surveillance Branch at IARC and first author of the study inWorldwide, about 300 million people use smokeless tobacco and 600 million people use areca nut, one of the most popular psychoactive substances in the world after nicotine,...
Regions with the highest burden of oral cancers from these products were Southcentral Asia — with 105,500 of 120,200 cases , including 83,400 in India, 9700 in Bangladesh, 8900 in Pakistan, and 1300 in Sri Lanka — followed by Southeastern Asia with a total of 3900 cases and East Asia with 3300 cases .
Overall, curbing or preventing smokeless tobacco and areca nut use could help avoid many instances of oral cancer.
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