The Threatening Cancer
September 1st, 2010Cancer has become the leading cause of death worldwide. The incidence rate and the greater cancer burden. Globally, deaths from cancer exceeded the number of people with AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
However, without any meaningful action to prevent early death from cancer, the disease will continue to kill millions of people across the globe. To stop the increase in deaths from cancer, need urgent action from governments, individuals, and community health.
In the World Cancer Congress-21 in Shenzen, China, August 18 to 21 and then, held the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), UICC President David Hill said, the reduction of the global cancer epidemic has become one of the urgent global health priority. Therefore, the global cancer community must continue to discuss and work together to promote the importance of prevention, screening, detection, and treatment and effective management.
The theme of the congress this time to prevent preventable diseases, treat patients who can be treated, through a system of expectations into reality. This conference discusses cancer prevention, screening or screening, early detection, early treatment, and support for special treatment, hospital care, and other problems.
Based on data released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, one of the agencies under the UN’s World Health Organization, the world’s cancer reached 12.7 million by the year 2008 and resulted in the death of 7.6 million patients. In the year 2030 is forecast to have 21.4 million new cancer cases with the 13.2 million deaths.
Cancer can continue to be a deadly disease, said Otis W. Brawley, because the rapid industrialization and the adoption of Western lifestyles. In addition, population growth and aging will also increase the cancer cases.
Most cancer patients in the world is lung cancer (12.7 percent), breast cancer (10.9 percent), and colon cancer (9.7 percent). As many as 58 percent of cancer cases occur in poor and developing countries as well as deaths reach 63 percent.
While the causes of cancer deaths globally is the highest lung cancer (18.2 percent), followed by stomach cancer, and liver cancer. If visits a location, in developing countries more cases of cervical cancer and liver cancer. In developed countries the most dominant is prostate cancer and colon cancer.
If visits by sex, based on data from the World Health Organization (WHO), among men, the highest mortality occurred in patients with lung cancer, stomach, liver and large intestine. The cancer among women in the breast, lung, stomach, colon, and uterus.
Can be prevented
Hill said, actually one-third of all cancer cases can be prevented. Most, or about 40 percent of cancer caused by lifestyle factors, infectious diseases, and environmental or job-related hazardous substances.
“It means the potential to prevent cancer. Necessary adaptation of global, national, and individuals to prove if these factors resolved, cases and cancer deaths could be reduced, “said Hill.
In developing countries, triggering the high incidence of cancer is tobacco use, alcohol, eating less fruit and vegetables, as well as chronic infection of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and some types of Human Papilloma Virus (HPV).
Prevention strategy by increasing avoidance of the above factors, vaccination against HPV and hepatitis B virus, control the intake of substances hazards, and reducing exposure to sunlight.
In controlling the increase of cancer in the world, according to Otis W. Bradley of the American Cancer Society, said the current message should be echoed incessantly is early detection saves lives.
Early detection can reduce the burden of a third of cases of cancer if detected and treated early. Early detection of cancer based on the observation that treatment is more effective when cancer is detected early. The aim is to detect cancer when he was a local (not spread).
Tobacco Products
From a number of lifestyle factors that trigger the emergence of cancer, tobacco use could be one of the main factors preventing cancer, the most extensive in the world today. Tobacco causes 80-90 percent of deaths from lung cancer and approximately 30 percent of cancer deaths in developing countries.
Control of tobacco products which harm their own health became a serious issue discussed in the congress this time of cancer worldwide. Ala Alvan, Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization, said the cigarette the most risk for non-comunnicable diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and chronic lung disease.
Therefore, it needs a comprehensive strategy, including the prohibition of advertisements and sponsorship of tobacco products, increasing taxes on tobacco, and to intensify the programs that can reduce tobacco consumption. This initiative has demonstrated effective results reducing the number of cancer deaths.Unfortunately, not all countries implement the interventions it was important.
Only about 9 percent of the country that mandates smoke free bars and restaurants and 65 states reported implementing smoke free policies at the national level.
The infectious disease causes nearly 22 percent of deaths in developing countries and 6 percent in industrialized countries.
The world needs to join hands to make the cancer is no longer a major killer. The challenge that control the global increase in cancer cases, found a treatment that does not torture people, and improve survival.


