November 3, 2016.
According to two reports, one from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the other published in the scientific journal The Lancet, by 2030, the number of cancers in women is likely to explode.
5.5 million cancer deaths in 2030
5.5 million women will die of cancer each year worldwide by 2030, according to a report by the American Cancer Society, presented Tuesday, November 2, at the World Cancer Congress, which is being held this year in Paris. This represents a 60% increase from the 3.5 million women who died in 2012. But how to explain such an increase in the number of cancer and in particular breast cancer?
According to the authors of the report, this increase is explained by the aging of the population but also by the increase in the frequency of “ known cancer risk factors linked to rapid economic transition, such as physical inactivity, poor diet, obesity, and reproductive factors Like childbearing late in life, says Sally Cowal of ACS, who worked on writing the study.
The number of breast cancer will double
A second study, published Wednesday, November 3 by the medical journal The Lancet, confirms these conclusions by revealing that in 2030, the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer could double to 3.2 million per year from 1.7 million per year currently. Poor countries will once again be the most affected, since 80% of women have access to screening in rich countries, against 50% in South Africa or India.
As for cervical cancer, the number of diagnoses could increase by at least 25%, to more than 700,000 by 2030, “ mainly in low- and middle-income countries », According to our colleagues at the Lancet. Currently, cervical cancer kills 266,000 women worldwide each year, 90% of them in developing countries.
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