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CANCER AROUND THE WORLD
By Sarah St-Pierre
Definitions
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002267/
A cancer survivor is an individual with any type of cancer, current or past, who is still livingSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_survivor
Cancer Incidence Rates in Children per 100,000 Children by Age Group in United
States in 2000
< 1 1 to 4 5 to 9 10 to 14 15 to 190
5
10
15
20
25
Age Group
Rates per 100,000 children
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/dsCancerInChildren/
Prostate Cancer Compared to Breast Cancer in Canada in 2010
Source: http://www.cancer.ca
Number of People
24,600
1 20
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
Total New CasesDeaths
Prostate Breast
4300 5300
23,20024,600
The Most Commonly Diagnosed Cancers Worldwide in 2002
Lungs12%
Breast10%
Bowel9%
Stomach9%
Prostate6%Leukaemia
3%
Brain & CNS2%
Others49%
Source: http://info.cancerresearchuk.org
Percentage of Side-effects by Gender, of 5,836 Long-term Cancer Survivors, Whose Median Age Was Between 51
and 71 Years in United States
Source: http://health.usnews.com
arthrite/osteoporosis
cataracts
heart problems
Kidney/bladder
hearing loss
thyroid problems
meomory loss
diabetes
circulation problems
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
16
14
17
14
15
6
8
9
11
33
17
14
10
10
12
9
8
11
WomenMen
Percentage of Side-effects
Percentage of Survivors
Five-year Survival Rates for Different Cancers from 2000 to 2005 in United
States
Source: http://health.usnews.com
female breast colorectal lung & bronchus prostate Pancreas0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
88.7
64.4
15.2
98.9
5.1
Correlation between Smoking habits and Smoking-Related Disease that Caused Death Worldwide in 2000
0 20000000 40000000 60000000 80000000 100000000 1200000000
100000
200000
300000
400000
500000
600000
700000
800000
900000
f(x) = 0.00540454948929002 x − 44791.1065703733
R= 0.8
Source : http://www.inforesearchlab.com
Number of Deaths Related to Smoking
Number of Smokers
The Different Expenses for Programs and Services of the
Canadian Cancer Society in 2010 in Quebec Province
Source: http://www.cancer.ca
Amount of Money in $
Advoc
acy
Reven
ue d
evelop
men
t
Info
rmat
ion
Prev
entio
n
Supp
ort –
Ser
vices
Resea
rch
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
6000
522
1,606
2,7913,088
4,681
5,498
Conclusion
Cancers in children occur more often before the age of 1 and at the adolescence, between the age of 15 and 19.
Breast cancer kills more people than prostate cancer even though there is more cases of the latter cancer.
The most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide is lung cancer.
Conclusion
The most common side-effects of cancer for men is heart problems and for women it is arthrite or osteoporosis.
The cancer that has the most survivors in the United States is prostate cancer.
Smoking is strongly related to disease that cause death worldwide.
The Canadian Cancer Society spent over 18,000$ in 2010 in total to help advance the cancer research.
