{"id":26137,"date":"2025-08-27T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26137\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:58:09","slug":"lifestyle-fixes-can-curb-doubling-of-liver-cancer-cases-by-2050-hong-kong-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/26137\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifestyle fixes can curb doubling of liver cancer cases by 2050: Hong Kong experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The expected doubling of liver cancer patients worldwide by 2050 can be reversed with lifestyle changes and policy interventions, such as calorie labelling and increases in alcohol prices, according to Hong Kong scholars who led a global study.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Sixty per cent of liver cancer cases are preventable, as more cases are no longer caused by hepatitis viral infection but by an unhealthy lifestyle, said Professor Stephen Chan Lam from the Chinese University of Hong Kong\u2019s clinical oncology department, who co-led the study.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Lancet Commission on liver cancer study found that by 2050, about one in three liver cancer cases will be caused by alcohol use and fatty liver, up from 26 per cent in 2022.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hepatitis B and hepatitis C virus infections, meanwhile, would account for 62 per cent of cases, down from 68 per cent.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Professor Stephen Chan says 60 per cent of liver cancer cases are preventable. Photo: May Tse\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/b6ecd778-a575-4bde-bfab-8740460918f8_c1227701.jpg\" title=\"Professor Stephen Chan says 60 per cent of liver cancer cases are preventable. Photo: May Tse\"\/>Professor Stephen Chan says 60 per cent of liver cancer cases are preventable. Photo: May Tse<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe will be at a crossroads in the coming two decades,\u201d Chan said. \u201cObesity and unhealthy eating habits are causing more liver cancer cases. It means everyone is at risk now, including those who are not drinking or carrying the hepatitis virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The expected doubling of liver cancer patients worldwide by 2050 can be reversed with lifestyle changes and policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[21528,21533,21526,21524,18,15598,135,21525,21531,4202,19,17,21530,12022,7176,21527,21532,15724,21529],"class_list":{"0":"post-26137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-alcohol-prices","9":"tag-alcohol-use","10":"tag-calorie-labelling","11":"tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fatty-liver","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-hepatitis-b","16":"tag-hepatitis-c-virus-infections","17":"tag-hong-kong","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-lancet-commission-on-liver-cancer","21":"tag-liver-cancer","22":"tag-obesity","23":"tag-professor-stephen-chan-lam","24":"tag-the-world-health-organization","25":"tag-unhealthy-lifestyle","26":"tag-viral-hepatitis"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}