The number of patients with deadly cancer is likely to double by the year 2030, especially in poorer countries. The director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer threw up this shocking prediction.
The agency, which is a part of World Health Organization, fears that by the year 2030 there will be 27 million cases of cancer, including approximately 17 million deaths from the same deadly disease. Moreover, there would be about 75 million people, living with cancer.
As the agency believes that rampant population growth, longer life expectancy, increased number of people with smoking habit in the developing countries would make people more vulnerable to this deadly disease, confirms the fear that time coming ahead is bound to bring a deadly era for these poorer or developing nations. And as the estimate, by the agency stating that just in the year 2000, there were 11 million new cases of diagnosed cancer worldwide, along with seven million cancer-deaths and 25 million people living with cancer, confirms this.
After establishing these findings on the facts mentioned above, it seems that situation, which is already worse, would perhaps go worst.
However, to say that this prediction is mainly for developing or poorer nations seems somewhat dubious because no doubt, in countries of ‘transition’ or middle-income countries the threat of deadly cancer is somewhat greater. However, as the epidemiological evidence points out that the threat of cancer is not less even for the developed countries because in the developed nations because cancer is still the second biggest cause of death after cardiovascular disease in such countries.
Via: Topix