According to a study, China is facing 2.8 million deaths only in 2015, with lung cancer crowning the top of the list of cancer cases.
A group of scientists from the National Cancer Center of Beijing, American Cancer Society and University of Sydney, published a study at a US medical Journal named CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, that reflected an estimate of 2.8 million deaths of lung cancer in 2015, meaning 7500 deaths daily and making lung cancer the most common type of cancer in China. According to Dr. Wanqing Chen, leader of the research, air pollution might be the main cause of lung cancer but their relation still is to be decided.
“Cancer incidence and mortality have been increasing in China, making cancer the leading cause of death since 2010 and a major public health problem in the country,” wrote the researchers, who also estimated a 4.3 million diagnosed cases of other types of cancer, which represents a reception of 12.000 cases daily. These numbers are marking a sharp difference compared to the estimates of 2013, that reflected 3.12 million diagnosed cases and 2 million deaths during the year.
Studies reflected that the four most common types of cancer were: lung, stomach, colorectal and esophageal, representing 57 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the country. And separately, the most common types of cancer for men and women were: liver and breast respectively.
These estimates are based on data trend collected from 72 local places, such as hospitals, community health centers, vital statistics and the Civil Administration Bureau, but are not actual numbers. However, the do provide a closer look to a main health problem in China.
Now, looking at the bright side, mortality rates of cancer cases have decreased significantly. A good trend in the study shows that about 21 percent of deaths of cancer have decreased since 2006. Dr. Chen also said “China’s emphasis on smoking control is a good sign to prevent such deads”. Unhealthy habits and behaviors like smoking can be helpful to prevent any type of cancer.
Source: Medical Daily
Everyone smokes cigarettes in China. It is a huge problem.
Life expectancy in China in 1970 was about 62 years (a bit more than it was in the U.S. in 1900). By 2013 it was 75.3 years, which is close to the longest-lived countries. I very much doubt that most Chinese would prefer to return to 1970. As China becomes wealthier its skies and water will become cleaner, but in the meantime the people of China have never been healthier or lived longer.
This article is incoherent. What the hell does this mean?:
“A good trend in the study shows that about 21 percent of deaths of cancer have decreased since 2006.”
Dr WANKING Chen……??? Really?
Is this a joke? Who wrote this, some illiterate from San Francisco or some tool in China?
Actually they are included, most cases can not be identified to there source. Asbestos was one that could be traced. Unfortunately with more income the Chinese have the money to buy tobacco and e-cig’s. But these same people are in the cities with high pollution from their factories. Air Pollution weakens a persons immune system thus they are more susceptible to cancers.
Warning: opinion, not science.
And yet, for some reason I would like someone to explain to me, the tobacco industry, the e-cig industry, just skates along without a care. Seriously. The asbestos industry disappeared in a heart beat and yet, more people die yearly from tobacco then died EVER of asbestos lung… mesothelioma.
What the fuquc is wrong with this picture??
Not that its an excuse, but they’re talking about a country wide pollution problem that plagues China from its coal usage and manufacturing factories. Not from cig’s
And all that schitt they pump into the sky is coming over here to kill us in America. Maybe that is what Mao meant when he said “We will bury you”…..
Being the “cheap” supplier to USA and EU commerce is why they are under the toxic cloud, USA businesses wanting cheaper goods, cheap money and cheap manufactured, (planned obsolescence), and hence why USA manufacturing is at an all time low. Mao loved his people. Took the country away from Chiang Kai-shek who had enslaved the population, stole all the monies, put them into Swiss bank accounts and ruined an otherwise peaceful nation. Granted Mao went the complete other direction just proving any form of dictatorship is evil.
Hey sci guy bum. What kind of fruit do you prefer?
The type grown without gender-bending, cancer-causing chemicals from the Captains of Industry.
What kind of fruit are you?
I’m not a fruit I’m human. Enjoy your banana or cucumber in whatever orifice pleases you.
Points at you
Laughs
The number of deaths caused by air pollution is speculative. It is a guess. Deaths associated with smoking are rather easily estimated.
the same report says 85% of China lung cancers are tobacco related.
People smoke by choice, and that should be their right.
The tobacco industry poured millions of USD to breed higher additive tobacco plants in the 1980s and 1990s. Then covered up the research by having their attorney firms order the research and use attorney-client privilege to hide it from the federal government. The NIH has a whole category devoted to tobacco attorneys and deceptive illegal practices of the tobacco industry.
You sound like one of their legal counsel who in the late 90s demanded the federal government let kids purchase cigarettes because it would infringe on their rights. Now those same people are demanding teens be able to use e-cigs.
But hey: smoke away.
Just in the United States, tens of millions of people have quit using tobacco. Despite the hysterical accusations, smoking is a choice.
E-cigarettes are vastly safer than smoking, and even anti-tobacco organizations like the American Council on Science and health support the availability of e-cigs.