World Cancer Cases Jumped 75 Percent in 2030

During this time regarded as the scourge of cancer for all people. But strangely the number of cancer patients around the world continue to grow from year to year. Even a study predicting cancer cases around the world will tend to rise to 75 percent in 2030 due to demographic factors and lifestyle accretion.

A team of researchers led by Freddie Bray of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France declared the year 2008 alone there are 12.7 million new cancer cases. This figure was expected to rise about 75 percent or 22.2 million cases in 2030 with a possible 90 percent increase in cases occurred in poor countries.


In many countries, cancer is often associated with an infection that usually occurs in cases of colon cancer, rectum, breast and prostate, as well as diet 'westernized', says Bray.

The study, published in the journal The Lancet Oncology uses data from the GLOBOCAN, IARC database held on a variety of cancer cases in 184 countries.

Data was mentioned in 2008, prostate cancer, colon, lung and breast cancers are responsible for half the number of cancer cases are found in rich countries. In middle-income countries, gastric cancer, esophagus and liver are relatively more common.

But the categorization of such states increasingly narrowed in the stomach and cervical cancer cases in recent years. Whereas in poor countries, occupying the highest rates of cervical cancer, followed by breast and liver cancer.

"We predict an increase in the incidence of all cancers of the 12.7 million new cases in 2008 to 22.2 million in 2030," said the study as reported by AFP.

Therefore, the "targeted interventions can lead to a reduction projected increase, including through the implementation of primary prevention strategies, in addition to vaccination, early detection and effective treatment programs."