In 2018, tobacco use was the leading attributable risk factor to the cancer burden in Australia, particularly lung cancer at 122,178 disability adjusted life years. That year, over 189,000 disability adjusted life years, or DALYs, were attributed to tobacco use. DALYs are used to measure the burden of a disease, or years of healthy life lost, by combining years of life lost with years of life lived with disability.
Cancer burden attributable to tobacco use in Australia in 2018, by type of cancer
(in disability adjusted life years)
DALY = disability adjusted life year, and measures the number of healthy years of life lost by combining years of life lost (premature death) and years of life lived with disability.
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AIHW. (December 1, 2021). Cancer burden attributable to tobacco use in Australia in 2018, by type of cancer (in disability adjusted life years) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 21, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310670/australia-burden-attributed-to-tobacco-use-by-cancer-type/?__sso_cookie_checker=failed
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