Estimated economic burden of cancer associated with suboptimal diet in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Suboptimal diet is a preventable cause of cancer. We aimed to estimate the economic burden of diet-associated cancer among US adults.

Methods

We used a Comparative Risk Assessment model to quantify the number of new cancer cases attributable to seven dietary factors among US adults ages 20 + years. A Markov cohort model estimated the 5-year medical costs for 15 diet-associated cancers diagnosed in 2015. We obtained dietary intake from 2013 to 2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, cancer incidence, and survival from 2008 to 2014 Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, and medical costs from 2007 to 2013 linked SEER-Medicare data.

Results

The estimated 5-year medical costs of new diet-associated cancer cases diagnosed in 2015

SUBMITTER: Khushalani JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9134862 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature