Why has the Cancer rate doubled in the United States and nobody talking about it?

Question

Soon the cost will be astronomical.

Answer 1

I know 8 people with cancer including my husband who needs a bone marrow transplant. The transplant will break us. We have no idea how we will be able to pay for this. With out it he will die. I have my own health issues. Pretty sad what is happening here and there aren't many options.

Answer 2

This is related the type of food and the consumption of soda.

Answer 3

Doubled since when? There has been no huge rise in the cancer rate.

There are, however, a number of reasons why cancer APPEARS to be more common these days.

The first, ironically, is better general health care; in the west at least, more people are living well into old age than ever before. Most cancers are associated with ageing, and the majority of those diagnosed with cancer are over 60, so - more old people = more cases of cancer.

With modern diagnostic techniques and screening., cancers that would not have been spotted in the past are now found through routine screening.

And more people are surviving cancer for longer.

And of course we hear more about cancer these days in the media. When we didn't have TV, or the internet cancer didn't get as much coverage as it does now. And people are more open about cancer, more willing to talk about it. When my dad got cancer in the 1950s, his mother was really embarrassed because she associated cancer with dirt - I bet she didn't mention it to anybody she knew, as someone in her position would these days. In those days - and far more recently - many people mouthed the word cancer rather than say it out loud. Now people discuss it openly - so it appears it's more common.

But to take breast cancer as an example: breast cancer rates have not changed significantly in the last 20 years. But many, many people think rates have increased dramatically.

Answer 4

cant you see how horrible peoples' lifestyle is today??? diet, pollution etc are the great cancer causers

Answer 5

Cancer rates are declining in the US, and have been since the 1990s.

Actual cancer numbers in the elderly have been increasing because people have been living longer.

It shows what a delightful person you must be that your concern is the cost...

Answer 6

Off the top of my head the only cancer I can think of that has increased recently is melanoma. And it IS talked about since we know it results largely from overuse of tanning salons.