Cancer cause 7.6 million deaths in 2007
posted in Cancer |The cancer will kill 7.6 million people worldwide this year, according to a report with preliminary data from the Cancer Society of the United States.
That figure represents an average of 20,000 deaths every day, said the report, which said more than 12 million people have contracted the disease this year.
Worse, the death toll will reach 27 million in 2050, despite the progress that has been made in combating the scourge, he added.
Moreover, according to data compiled by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and cited by the Company, the burden of disease has been felt most strongly in developing countries.
The report estimated that in those nations 6.7 million people have contracted the disease this year, which will have caused 4.7 million deaths.
In industrialized nations the number of new cases will be 5.4 million, with 2.9 million deaths.
“The burden of cancer has increased in developing countries insofar as the decrease in the deaths from infectious diseases and infant mortality,” he said in a statement Ahmedin Jemal, an epidemiologist at the Cancer Society of the United States and one of the authors of the report.
Jemal said that such increase has become more evident in those countries, because it has increased the longevity of people who, following his older victims are more conducive to the disease.
The scientist said it has also become a cultural experience from industrialized countries that has impacted on the livelihood of populations in developing nations.
“The cancer has increased in these countries because their people have begun to adopt Western lifestyles, including snuff, increased consumption of saturated fat, high-calorie food and reduced physical activity,” he said.
Moreover, survival in developing countries is much lower than in the industrialized world, due to the shortage of services for early detection and treatment.
For example, the survival rate for five years of a child who has been diagnosed with cancer in Europe is 75 percent higher in Europe and North America, the survival rate for three years of a child in Central America.
The report also found that the incidence of different types of cancer is different in industrialized countries and the developing nations.
In these countries, the most common cancers this year were the lung, stomach and liver in men and breast, cervix and stomach in women.
In men in industrialized nations the most common cancers were prostate and lung, and colorectal. In the women were breast, colorectal and lung cancer.
Moreover, the report indicated that approximately 15 percent of cancer cases recorded in the world are linked to infections.
Moreover, this type of case is three times higher in developing countries than in industrialized nations.
The report included a special chapter on what he describes as “the epidemic of snuff,” to whose consumption attributed the deaths of some five million people in 2000.
Of that total, 30 per cent (1.42 million) were due to cancer, most lung.
In total, the snuff was responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide during the twentieth century, and it is estimated that in the present century will claim the lives of 1,000 million people, mostly in developing countries, as predicted .