The future- It is estimated that by the year 2025, the world will be plagued with more than 19 million cases of cancer (due to changes in lifestyle and lack of care reaching many underdeveloped countries where cancer is as prevalent as it is). in many countries). of the most developed regions of the world [the western world]).
Last – At the end of 2013, the estimated number of cancer cases worldwide was about 14 million and rising. That’s up from 12.7 million just 5 years earlier, in 2008, and with deaths rising over the same period from 7.6 million to 8.2 million (figures provided by the World Health Organization).
The reasons for more cancer in the world today:
Today, people tend to live much longer than ever before, something that is seen as a major contributor to these newly released figures, along with the burden of more people smoking (more young people smoke today than 10 years ago).
Smoking is considered one of the main causes of the development of lung cancer (lung cancer is the main cause of cancer [worldwide] with an estimated 1.8 million [13% of all cancer cases] be affected by the disease.
In addition, obesity is another factor that contributes to the increase in cancer cases (obese people have a higher risk of developing some type of cancer than those who have a weight proportional to high).
Breast cancer cases are no better either, with a sharp rise in diagnosed cases (since 2008) propelling it to the #1 killer of women in over 140 countries worldwide (breast cancer is the #1 killer overall in many underdeveloped countries [the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer]).
Conclusion – Although great strides have been made in the last 10 years (advances in modern methods of detection and treatment), much remains to be done before the world can consider itself winning the war against cancer. However, much of what could be done on a personal level is through ‘self-awareness’, something that would prevent many people from dying from the disease.
