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.
