Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.
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There's a rising cancer trend and, as I said, one of the major contributors is the overall ageing of the population - we aren't dying of other things, so we're dying of cancer.
But do remember that the most important risk factor for cancer is growing older. Most cancers occur in people over the age of 65.
In a way, cancer is so simple and so natural. The older you get, this is just one of the things that happens as the clock ticks.
Cancers of all types among women are increasing.
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer.
Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
Unlike other diseases, the vulnerability to cancer lies in ourselves. We always thought of disease as exogenous, but research into cancer has turned that idea on its head - as long as we live, grow, age, there will be cancer.
Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.
Cancer initiates due to a wide variety of causes, some of which are outside of our control or already occurred during our childhood.
For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
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