Cancer Epidemiology - ✔✔Study of the distribution and determinants of
cancer in population groups
Global Cancer Statistics - ✔✔cancer is the leading cause of disease
worldwide
Cancer rate - ✔✔suppouse to increase by 75% to 22 M new cases in 2030
Causes of cancer rate increase - ✔✔because of increasing
tobacco use
aging population
reproductive
dietary
and hormonal risk factors
Top 5 most commonly diagnosed cancers - ✔✔Lung (13%)
breast (11%)
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,colorectal (10%)
stomach (8%)
prostate (7%)
Make up 50 % of all cancer diagnosed - ✔✔Lung
breast
colorectal
stomach
prostate
Most common cancer in men - ✔✔Lung cancer
Most common cancer in woman - ✔✔Breast cancer
Cancer mortality - ✔✔An stimated 756 M people died in 2008
Top 5 most common causes of death - ✔✔Lung (18%)
Stomach(10%)
Liver (9%)
Colorectum (6%)
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,Breast (6%)
Both sexes combined - ✔✔prostate(14.4%)
breast(14.1%)
lung (13.7%)
colorectal (8.6%)
melanoma of the skin (4.6%)
Among women top 5 (common) diagnosed cancers - ✔✔breast (29%)
lung(14%)
colorectal (9%)
uterine(5%)
thyroid(6%)
Among men top 5 (common) diagnosed cancers - ✔✔prostate (28%)
lung (14 %)
colorectal (9%)
urinary bladder(6%)
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, melanoma of the skin (5%)
Cancer - ✔✔is the second leading cause of death in second to heart disease.
Women leading cause of death - ✔✔lung (26%)
breast(14%)
colorectal (9%)
pancreas (7%)
ovary(5%)
Men leading cause of death - ✔✔lung (28%)
prostate(10%)
colorectal(9%)
pancreas(6%)
liver and intrahepatic bile duct (5%)
Cancer health disparities - ✔✔adverse difference in incidence, prevalence,
mortality, survivorship, and burder of cacer or related health conditions
that exist among specific population groups in US.
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