Cancer will be common till 2030

CANCER CASES SET TO RISE BY HALF BY 2030.

New cases of cancer will rise by half of 2030, reaching million per year compared to 14 million in 2012, according to a UN report.

Cancer deaths meanwhile, will likely rise from 9 million to 15 million per year as the world’s population grows and ages and more people adopt risky lifestyle habits.

It took aim at Big Tobacco saying its sales drive was inextricably linked to a likely surge in lung cancer.

It is the first such overviews in six years, WHO, director said the overall impact from cancer would unquestionably hit developing countries the hardest. These nations are already grappling with poverty associated cancers caused by infection or disease. The particularly heavy burden projected to fall on low and  middle income countries makes it implausible to treat our way out of cancer, even the highest income countries will struggle to cope with the spiraling costys of treatment and care. Cancer overtook heart disease as the number one cause of death in the world in 2011. New cases will likely rise to 19.5 million in 2025, with 12 million deaths.

In men cancer most often attacked the lungs followed by the prostate, colorectum, stomach and liver.

For women, cancer was most common in the breast, colorectum, lung, cervix, and stomach.

Measured as a proportion of the population however high income countries in north America and western Europe as a Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand had higher fugures. Cancers of the breast, colorectum and prostate are more typical of the industrialized world and those of the liver, stomach and esophagus are also more common in the low income countries.