The cancer experts WHO make a chilling prediction: more and more people Worldwide get cancer and die, too. Europe is particularly affected. This is all the more tragic, because a third of the disease doesn’t have to be.
Doctors, researchers and politicians have been fighting the cancer for many decades, the fight and then hoping to have him before the year 2000 defeated. Known the is success dimensions.
Despite many advances in therapy and survival time, disease today more people than ever to cancer. In the year 2018, there will be an estimated 18.1 million of newly discovered cases, such as the International Agency for research on cancer (IARC) of the world health organization (WHO) announced now.
In Europe, about 23 percent of all cancer diagnoses fall
But that is not due to the fact that cancer has become more aggressive. Rather, the longer life expectancy of people leads to more disease. Improved diagnostic options in the discover tumors more frequently. And the international population growth contributes to the fact that there are more potential patients.
Some of the Figures from the Statistic Report of the IARC:
- Worldwide, every fifth man and every sixth woman receives in the course of the life of a cancer diagnosis.
- Every eighth man and every eleventh woman to die of cancer.
- The number of cancer-related deaths in the year 2018 is estimated 9.6 million.
- Most of the deaths caused by lung-, colorectal-, stomach-, liver – and breast cancer.
- Of lung cancer of 1.8 million people die just in the world.
- Cancer of the colon, there are 881.000 Deaths.
- Stomach cancer calls for 783.000 deaths.
- Liver cancer kills 782.000 people.
- Breast cancer succumb to 627.000 people.
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Europe, while only 9 percent of the world’s population, but diagnoses 23.4 percent of the global Cancer, and a good 20 percent of the tumor-related deaths.
Unhealthy lifestyle factors are to blame for every third case of Cancer
What the cancer experts WHO particularly moving is the fact that many cancers are preventable. “The new Figures underscore that prevention plays a key role in the fight against cancer,” says IARC Director Christopher Wild.
And Volker Arndt German cancer research center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, adds: “a Current evaluation of the DKFZ and have shown that over a third of all new Cancer cases in Germany on modifiable risk factors and potentially preventable.”
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Avoiding tobacco use, lose weight, eat better = 165.000 cases of cancer in Germany
For this, the Heidelberg scientists looked at all of the 440,000 in 2018 expected new Cancer cases in individuals aged 35 to 84 years. They calculated almost 165.000 cancer less, if certain risk elimination factors. The preventable risk factors are Smoking, poor diet and Obesity play the most important role here.
19 percent of all cancer cases in Germany on the Smoking. Unhealthy food is almost eight percent, Overweight for seven percent of cancer cases. Close behind following your movement in a deficiency.
50 percent less cancer without preventable risk factors, plus a consistent cancer screening
Not the researchers have considered in their extrapolation of the risk factor is UV radiation. You would have to visit the consequences of Solarium, long sun-baths, and there is insufficient light included protection, diseases, the proportion of avoidable cancer is even higher.
The study authors note, moreover, that even half of all cancer avoid or nip in the Bud. This includes not only the life style risk factors should be minimized, but also the tests for cancer are used to recognition on a regular basis.