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[solbanger]

Cancer may surpass heart disease as no 1 killer worldwide. The third world still enjoys a good smoke apparently. And probably have yet to adopt a true Western seditary lifestyle such as using scooters to go shopping. Due mostly to emerging market countries, the global cancer burden is set to hit its stride.


http://www.scienceda...81209111516.htm

[Mind]

Interesting, I thought Alzheimer's would give cancer a run for its money since the average age of the world's population is increasing (although cancer mortality is highly correlated with age as well).

With the ever increasing waistlines of Americans and other peoples with a sedentary lifestyle, you would think diabetes would become a bigger problem as well. I guess the methods of fighting diabetes (diet and exercise) are far cheaper than the methods of fighting cancer, so perhaps there is hope to stem the tide of obesity and diabetes.

[solbanger]

Interesting, I thought Alzheimer's would give cancer a run for its money since the average age of the world's population is increasing (although cancer mortality is highly correlated with age as well).

With the ever increasing waistlines of Americans and other peoples with a sedentary lifestyle, you would think diabetes would become a bigger problem as well. I guess the methods of fighting diabetes (diet and exercise) are far cheaper than the methods of fighting cancer, so perhaps there is hope to stem the tide of obesity and diabetes.

I think it's more a consequence of chronic smokers having more dollars to indulge in another pack per day. Couple that with illiteracy and susceptibility to the tobacco industry's financial influence and you've got a killer habit going global.

Edited by solbanger, 10 December 2008 - 10:29 PM.

[Prometheus]

Interestingly, the oldest old do not die from cancer. However, those who die at relatively younger ages appear to be susceptible to cancer.

[JediMasterLucia]

Interestingly, the oldest old do not die from cancer. However, those who die at relatively younger ages appear to be susceptible to cancer.

That is true, most people I knew were not very old when they died of cancer (terrible disease)
My mother was 20 years older than me when she died...

[VictorBjoerk]

There are centenarians dying from cancer too, I know people in the 80's who have died of cancer.

What kind of cancer is projected to be the most prominent killer?

[Shepard]

Interesting, I thought Alzheimer's would give cancer a run for its money since the average age of the world's population is increasing (although cancer mortality is highly correlated with age as well).

Pretty much everything is correlated with age in one way or another. If one thing doesn't get you, something else eventually will.

With the ever increasing waistlines of Americans and other peoples with a sedentary lifestyle, you would think diabetes would become a bigger problem as well. I guess the methods of fighting diabetes (diet and exercise) are far cheaper than the methods of fighting cancer, so perhaps there is hope to stem the tide of obesity and diabetes.

The problem with classifying someone as dying by diabetes is that it's like saying someone died from old age. Even if someone dies from cancer, it doesn't mean that it wasn't influenced by a diabetic or pre-diabetic condition.

Edited by shepard, 11 December 2008 - 07:25 AM.

[Prometheus]

The interesting thing about the oldest old not dying from cancer is that it weakens Campisi's theory that aging an adaptation to inhibit cancer.