According To WHO, Global Rates Of Cancer Could See 60% Increase
GLOBAL RATES OF CANCER TO INCREASE – According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global rates of cancer could sore by up to 60% in the next two decades.
This figure was driven by the constantly high rates of HPV, hepatitis, and smoking, especially in countries with lower income.
Within that figure, the WHO suggested that over 80 percent of these are to be expected in low-income countries. Meanwhile, the US’ progress against cancer has been outstanding.
This was caused by the declining rates of smoking paired with significantly better treatments. However, according to an article from DailyMail, some countries are not so fortunate.
Most third-world countries needed to invested limited resources into other medical issues such as fighting infectious diseases and keeping mothers and babies alive during pregnancy and infancy.
Although, the WHO stated that seven million lives could be saved through improvements in screening and vaccination for HPV and hepatitis, the leading causes of cervical cancer and liver cancer.
If people have access to primary care and referral systems then cancer can be detected early, treated effectively and cured
Cancer should not be a death sentence for anyone, anywhere.
WHO
With this, Dr. Elisabete Weiderpass, Director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) stated that the past 50 years had seen tremendous leaps in research on cancer prevention and treatment.
High-income countries have adopted prevention, early diagnosis and screening programs, which together with better treatment, have contributed to an estimated 20percent reduction in the probability of premature mortality between 2000 and 2015, but low-income countries only saw a reduction of 5%. We need to see everyone benefiting equally
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