Global cancer surge fuelled by alcohol, smoking and obesity predicted by WHO World Health Organisation experts issue timebomb warning and say key is prevention, possibly including tax on sugared drinks
According to the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/03/alcohol-sugar-smoking-fuel-cancer-surge?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2 The incidence of cancer globally has increased from 12.7m new cases in 2008 to 14.1m in 2012, when there were 8.2m deaths. By 2032, it is expected to hit almost 25m a year a 70% increase.
The biggest burden will be in low- and middle-income countries, where the population is increasing and living longer. They are hit by two types of cancers first, those triggered by infections, such as cervical cancers, which are still very prevalent in poorer countries that do not have screening, let alone the HPV vaccine.
Second, there are increasingly cancers associated with the lifestyles of more affluent countries “with increasing use of tobacco, consumption of alcohol and highly processed foods and lack of physical activity”, writes Margaret Chan, WHO director general, in an introduction to the report.
The World Cancer Report, an 800-page volume on the state of cancer knowledge, which is the first for five years.The report shows that alcohol-attributable cancers were responsible for a total of 337,400 deaths worldwide in 2010, mostly among men.
About half of Britons do not recognise the importance of diet in protecting them against cancer, according to a poll carried out by the World Cancer Research Fund. The survey also found that 59% of people did not know that putting on weight increased cancer risk.
Jean King, Cancer Research UK’s director of tobacco control, said: “People can cut their risk of cancer by making healthy lifestyle choices, but it’s important to remember that the government and society are also responsible for creating an environment that supports healthy lifestyles. It’s clear that if we don’t act now to curb the number of people getting cancer, we will be at the heart of a global crisis in cancer care within the next two decades.”
Now why doesn’t this surprise me?…
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Not a very good prognosis really is it 😦
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No its awful, but the younger generation just don’t seem to worry about it at all – I feel sorry for their siblings.
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Im not surprised really people seem to eat drink and smoke more pity really I dont know why this is 🙄
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They definitely do lilian, especially that generation, they just don’t seem to think of their future at all and like I said to M, I feel sorry for their siblings who will suffer the most.
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Tragic…Sad!!! 🙄
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Yes, it is Bushka, very sad 😦
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The people I see buying cigarettes in the main newsagent also buy lottery tickets and they look poor and shabby.. so maybe smoking helps them to get through the day… and the future seems too far off.
Petrol fumes are worse than smoking but nobody ever mentions that.We see huge transporter lorries with massive loads and people driving when they could walk.Poverty itself makes people ill… they can’t afford fruit and veg… not to mention the pain one may feel knowing one is at the bottom of the heap….In our borough women in the Eastern side die 14 years before those in the affluent West side just two or three miles away regardless of smoking etc.
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Thanks K, that was so well put and obviously quite true in other areas.
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I used to teach statistics to people in Trade Union positions and few people know how to interpret them…Where does the data come from;have they altered the way it’s measured since earlier years?So many questions.. and often they seek to blame people when many other factors are ignored publicly… poverty is the worst thing,,, both physically and psychologically.Some can cope better than others.:)
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You should still be teaching statistics K, you are obviously extremely knowledgeable on it. 🙂
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I try to put bits into stories sometimes or jokes… like 50 percent of the patients in the waiting room fainted…
so in totalmhow many
One!
There were just two there luckily.If there’s bee 20,ten might have fainted!!:)
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Not good news for the future. Smoking does ease stress though.
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