Cancer
Cancers due to Obesity Affect The Poorest
ATLANTA (AP) – cancers stimulated by obesity, largely associated with rich countries are becoming more common in the developing world, according to new reports.
Obese people are considered a population at risk for many cancers, including colon and breast cancer. A separate report released Friday said that obesity rates around the world have doubled in the last three decades, especially in the West but also in most of the rest of the world.
“Unfortunately, changes in lifestyles, such as reduced physical activity, are making people less healthy and therefore prone to diseases like cancer,” said Dr. Eduardo Cazap, president of the International Union for the Control Cancer, in a statement released by the World Health Organization.
For decades, health officials have expressed concern about the impact of smoking-a habit common in industrialized countries in deaths from lung cancer in developing countries.
Cancer: a preventable disease
Each day may even help to reduce their personal risk of cancer. Although not possible to prevent any form of cancer, as about five percent have genetic causes. But 90 percent of cancers are environmentally determined, of which apply to each third tobacco smoke and poor diet as a trigger.
In the fight against cancer is prevention in the foreground, with about half of all cancer patient dies. Overall, the figures are frightening: Every year eleven million people worldwide suffer from cancer.
In Germany makes a diagnosis each year, about 400,000 people. Cancer is thus still number two cause of death after cardiovascular diseases.
The new report by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF report), based on the analysis of some 7,000 cancer studies, confirms and underlines the importance of prevention.