The official news portal of the UN reports on the progress of the spread of cancer in the world in 2020. Specialists of the International Agency for Research on Cancer presented new data on the incidence of cancer in 185 countries.
So, as of December 2020, the number of new cases of diseases per year has reached about 20 million people! Approximately 10 million people died from various types of cancer!
Experts are ruthless – during the life cancer will be diagnosed in every fifth inhabitant of the planet! Every eighth man and every 11 woman will die from this disease! So, according to scientists, by 2040 the number of annual new cases of cancer will increase by 47% and reach 28.4 million people a year! The vast majority of these statistics will come from countries with low and medium levels of development. In many of these countries, risk factors that affect morbidity, such as smoking, unhealthy diets, obesity and sedentary lifestyles, will rise significantly.
According to experts, cancer incidence and mortality will be affected by changes in the structure of the population and living conditions of people, as well as the level of ability of countries’ health systems to control the situation.
For information, according to Johns Hopkins University, 1.6 million people died from the COVID-19 virus during the same period. We would very much like Ukraine to launch the same information attack (as in the case of the fight against the virus) on ways to prevent cancer – a healthy lifestyle and nutrition, early diagnosis, screening. A program has also been adopted for the construction of state-of-the-art medical and rehabilitation centers. Otherwise, the verdict of the specialists of the International Agency for Research on Cancer will not be long in coming.
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