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Cancer figures reveal world trends
17 December 2007 10:57:07
New statistics from the organisation have highlighted that over 20,000 people will have died from the disease every day in 2007.
Estimates in the ACS report also projected that cancer will have killed over 7.6 million people by the time the new year rings in.
Higher infection rates are attributed with the dominance of lung, stomach and liver cancers in men as well as persistent occurrences of breast, cervix uteri and stomach cancers in women in developing countries.
"The burden of cancer is increasing in developing countries as deaths from infectious diseases and childhood mortality decline and more people live to older ages when cancer most frequently occurs," confirmed Ahmedin Jemal of the ACS.
He continued: "This cancer burden is also increasing as people in the developing countries adopt western lifestyles such as cigarette smoking, higher consumption of saturated fat and calorie-dense foods, and reduced physical activity."
Obese individuals have previously been found to be six times more likely than people with a healthy weight to develop throat cancer.
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