Global
cancer cases up by 33% in last 10 years: Prostate cancer most common cancer in
men; breast cancer in women
New Delhi: A
new report has shown that there were an estimated 17.5 million cancercases around the
world in 2015, increased by 33 per cent in the last decade.
The report
also found that 8.7 million people died due to cancer in 2015.
Between 2005
and 2015, cancer cases increased by 33 per cent, mostly due to population
ageing and growth plus changes in age-specific cancer rates, the report said.
The report
by Christina Fitzmaurice from the University of Washington in the US and
colleagues shows that prostate
cancer was the most common cancer globally in men (1.6 million
cases) and tracheal, bronchus and lung (TBL) cancer was the leading cause of
cancer deaths for men.
In women, breast cancer was
the most common cancer with 2.4 million cases. It is aslo the leading cause of
cancer deaths in women.
Leukemia,
other neoplasms, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and brain and nervous system cancers
were found to be the most common childhood cancers.
Researchers
estimated cancer deaths using vital registration system data, cancer registry
incidence data and verbal autopsy data.
Cancer is
the second leading cause of death worldwide and estimates of its burden around
the globe are vital for cancer control planning, the report said.
Globally,
the odds of developing cancer during a lifetime were one in three for men and
one in four for women, it added.
"Cancer
control, which requires a detailed understanding of the cancer burden as
provided in the GBD [Global Burden of Disease study], is of utmost importance
given the rise in cancer incidence due to epidemiological and demographic
transition," the researchers said.
The study
was published in the journal JAMA Oncology.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
06.12.2016
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does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will
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