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It's the hormones in the beef and milk. The Europeans know better. (But they
did get BSE. :-(
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Rate of Cancer Highest in North America
http://www.mercola.com/2002/jan/19/cancer_rates.htm
North America leads the world in the rate of cancers diagnosed in adults,
followed closely by Western Europe and Australia and New Zealand, according
to a recent estimate of worldwide cancer rates.
The study found that 1.5% of the North American population aged 15 years and
older -- more than 3 million people -- had been diagnosed with at least one
of 25 different cancers within the past 5 years. The results only include
individuals diagnosed in the past 5 years because people who live longer are
considered to be cured.
About 1.2% of the population of Western Europe, or nearly 4 million people,
had been diagnosed with cancer between 1986 and 1990, while just over 1% of
the population of Australia and New Zealand -- about 200,000 people -- had
been diagnosed over the same period.
Japan was next in line with 1% of the population diagnosed with cancer
within the past 5 years, followed by Eastern Europe with 0.7% of adults
living with cancer, and Latin America and the Caribbean countries with 0.4%
of the population diagnosed with cancer, according to the report.
The researchers suggest that higher cancer rates in nations with higher
income reflect longer life expectancies in older adults, who are more
susceptible to cancer.
Most of the difference is explained by different demographic patterns with
high-income countries having long life expectancy in age groups when the
risk of the disease is highest.
In other findings, cancer rates were similar for men and women living in
developed countries. In developing nations, however, more women lived with
cancer for at least 5 years, suggesting that men are more frequently
stricken with cancers that do not respond well to treatment, such as liver,
esophagus and stomach cancers.
Breast cancer was the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women
regardless of country. In men and women living in developed nations,
colorectal cancer was the second leading cause of cancer, followed by cancer
of the lung, bladder and stomach in men.
The study did not include the most common types of skin cancer, which are
extremely prevalent and rarely life threatening, but did include melanoma, a
relatively rare and dangerous type of skin cancer.
International Journal of Cancer January 2002;97:72-81
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COMMENT by DR. SAMUEL S. EPSTEIN:
A report from the World Health Organization's International Agency for
Research on Cancer (IARC), published in the current issue of the
International Journal of Cancer, confirms that the crude prevalence of
overall and organ-specific cancers in men and women is higher in developed
than in developing nations. Among developed nations, the highest prevalence
is in the U.S., followed by Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
It should be stressed that incidence is the major determinant of crude
cancer prevalence, so that regional and national variations reflect
variations in risk, and thus avoidable causes of cancer. That the U.S.
invidiously leads the world in this respect is troubling, and is in inverse
relationship to the massive public and private funding of the U.S. cancer
establishment, the National Cancer Institute, and American Cancer Society,
compared to relatively low funding in other developed nations and regions.
Illustratively, funding for the U.S. National Cancer Institute has increased
exponentially from $170 million in 1971 to current levels of $4.2 billion.
Thus, the IARC report is an indictment of the indifference of the U.S.
cancer establishment to cancer prevention, in sharp contrast to fixation on
damage control -- screening, diagnosis and treatment -- besides molecular
biology, and their disproportionately high funding.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
emeritus Professor Environmental and Occupational Medicine
University of Illinois School of Public Health
and Chairman, Cancer Prevention Coalition
www.preventcancer.com
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