SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: British Doctors Study, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Canadian Indian Residential School System
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Soc 243: week 3: some information about cancer epidemiology. Globally the number of cancer deaths is expected to grow from 12 million new cases and 7 million deaths from cancer in 2009 to a projected 26 million new cases and 11. 4 million deaths in 2030. Approximately 72% of cancer deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries in 2007, where the leading causes of cancer mortality are lung, stomach, liver, colon and rectum, and cervix. Cancer becoming more common could be because of population aging (some countries older/newer than older, but the whole world is getting older as a whole) Cancer incidence rates are going up, but at the same time, people are always changing habits, eating healthier, quitting smoking, to fight this. So not sure if the variation is strictly due to age depending on the trends of incidence" graph. The impact of infectious diseases on cancers in developing countries.
