Cancer deaths to double by the year 2030

[IDemo]

U.N. report: 13 million around world will die each year, twice those in 2008

Reuters - updated 11:35 a.m. MT, Tues., June 1, 2010

LONDON - Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that almost 21.4 million new cases of the disease will be diagnosed annually in 2030.

Launching a new database on global incidence of cancer in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, the IARC said the burden of cancer was shifting from wealthier to poorer nations.

"Cancer is neither rare anywhere in the world, nor confined to high-resource countries," it said in a statement.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37451524/ns/health-cancer/

[Mind_your_head]

1. Not so newsworthy. Most of us know we live in a contaminated world.

Not many "do" anything about it. :shrug:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. important to have preventative healthcare

HPV is not causing many cancers including the head and neck.

[Mind_your_head]

3. wha?

HPV is NOT causing many cancers.

1) what is HPV
2) whatever HPV is....glad it's not causing many cancers -includng head & neck.... :eyes:

What 'teh'?????

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. human papilloma virus

one cancer is enough and HPV cancers are increasing

http://www.headandneckoncology.org/content/1/1/36

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/statistics/headneck.htm

[tavalon]

9. Human Papilloma Virus

There are hundreds of strains but certain strains are related to uterine and vaginal cancers and since oral sex took off in the 70s, we're now seeing HPV in the throat and some of the strains are causing esophageal cancers in increasing rates. But really, HPV is just one problem. We live in a very contaminated environment. I'm not surprised.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. HPV of the head and neck appears to be #16

[tavalon]

7. HPV is causing many cancers, including the throat

[Gman]

4. Baby Boomers will be dying off at a rate faster than the peak of the WWII generation

right about 2030 or before. They have to die from something. I'm not sure of the relevance.

[SoCalDem]

10. Yep.. demographics ...

The super-old from the "greatest generation" are dying faster these days, and their "children" (boomers) will probably not live the same long lives (exhaustion/stress from working 3 jobs..taking care of aged parents, grown children and their families?)

The largest group of the early boomers will be "leaving" in large numbers, just as we arrived..

[defendandprotect]

5. War on Cancer ::: War on Drugs .... little difference . . . hey, new vaccine!!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. That's why I stopped...

...hanging out with scientists.

Have you seen how many lab rats they've killed over the years?

[HuckleB]

11. Uh, this is just filler.

The last line admits the reality:

"The projection for annual death rates of 13.2 million and annual diagnosis of 21.4 million were based on assumptions that underlying rates of cancer would remain the same over the next two decades, the IARC said."

No one should ignore the importance of addressing cancer, possible causes and treatment. However, this story offers no real information.

[jeffrey_X]

13. Prevention, Prevention, Prevention.....oh wait....

There is no money for corporations in prevention.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

14. That's why they'll never make a vaccine for viruses that cause cancer.

Oh, wait...