American Cancer Society Raises Eyebrows on New Breast Cancer Statistics
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Directly after Halloween bid its farewell to the world, the American Cancer Society (ACS) made a shocking discovery the day right after it.
On Tuesday, November 1st the ACS released an analysis while attending World Cancer Congress in Paris. It stated that in the 2 forthcoming decades, breast cancer will cause about 5.5 million deaths.
This alarmingly big number embodies an approximate 60% increment. Of course the global population is always increasing in number, yet the biggest amount of cancer deaths will be amongst women.
Sally Cowal, senior VP of ACS' Global Health branch says that "Most deaths will occur in middle aged to young adults and that in turn will put a great deal of stress on families".
Another report that was issued on TheLancet showing the statistics of breast cancer diagnosed women. In 2015, there were 1.7 million diagnosed women. By 2030 the number shall rise to 3.2 million.
Lancet medical journal also made a report on cervical cancer where the number of diagnosed women would upsurge by 25% or 700,000 circa by 2030. Middle and low income countries shall be most affected.
Getting back to the ACS report; cancer is labeled to be the second highest cause of death beside cardiovascular disease. Globally, one in seven women meet their demise because of breast cancer.
The reason behind this speedily rising death count is because breast cancer can be prevented and treated if diagnosed in its early stages. But since women in poor countries are affected, there is no way they can get proper treatment and diagnosis.
So, as these women have no idea about what is happening in their bodies they can't understand what measures to take. And so the breast cancer reaches an untreatable stage where the last option is death.
The ACS report also revealed that in 2012, 6.7 million cancer cases were developed and there were 3.5 million deaths. By 2030 these units are estimated to rise to 9.9 million cases and 5.5 million deaths.
Europe, Asia and America still procure the highest percentage of cancer cases but that is mostly because the population group has ultimate access to hospitals and professional technology like screening.
On the other hand, the countries that had the highest death toll were Papua New Guinea, Mongolia, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe where there is scarce medical treatment and diagnostic centers.
