Cancers of the two million women reach

Cancers of the two million women reach
Two million women were diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer last year, according to global figures.

A sharp increase in cases was observed in women younger than 50 years in low income, say U.S. experts.

Women in the richest countries fared better, partly due to the detection, drugs, snuff and policies against vaccines, as reported in the journal The Lancet.

The research supports calls to world leaders to cancer prevention a priority in the developing world.

The new global statistics of hundreds of cancer registries around the world found that there were about 2 million new cases of breast cancer and cervical cancer in 2010, and 625,000 deaths.

The analysis, by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, Seattle, noted a sharp increase in breast cancer and cervical cancer among young women in developing countries.

Cancer charities and scientists call these diseases there is a global priority similar to maternal mortality.
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Analysis

Worldwide figures on cases of breast cancer show up every year at a rate of around 3%, while mortality rates are also increasing - around 2% annually.

According to experts, this is due in part by the aging population and partly because a number of other factors, including diet, obesity, genetics, economics and availability of national control programs.

Research shows that some of these deaths are preventable through early detection and treatment of breast cancer, HPV vaccine for cervical cancer, cervical cancer screening and anti-smoking measures.

The question for policymakers is how to make these programs available to more women around the world.

Vaccines against the virus linked to cervical cancer, for example, will only be used more widely when the cost falls.

Global actions are warranted, with the support of global funds, according to public health experts.

In the past, complications during pregnancy and childbirth are among the leading causes of death in women of reproductive age in developing countries.

However, current trends, breast and cervical cancer deaths are beginning to advance, to the poorest countries.

Study co-author, Dr. Alan Lopez of the University of Queensland, Australia, said: "We have invested a huge amount of resources to address the serious concern of maternal mortality in the world and have seen great progress .

"To extend the commitment to breast cancer and cervical cancer needs to become a standard part of efforts to save the lives of more than mothers."
Mixed picture

The research in 187 countries for the period 1980-2010 revealed large differences in the chances of a woman to develop, and survive cancer.

In the United Kingdom, a woman's risk of dying from breast cancer has decreased from 1 in 32 in 1980 to 1 in 47 in 2010. In countries like Rwanda, however, the trend has reversed, with 1 in 60 women at risk, compared with 1 of 97 in 1980.

Dr. Rafael Lozano, a professor of global health IHME, another co-author of the study, said that the world used to think of breast cancer as a problem for high-income countries, but as the world has become globalized, this is starting to change.

"The major known risk factors for breast cancer - poor diet and obesity - are increasingly common in poor countries," he said.

"We found that while countries like the United States and Britain have been able to reduce the risk of women dying from breast cancer through better screening and treatment, the less affluent countries are seeing the risks increase ".

With cervical cancer, the number of cases and deaths is increasing more slowly than breast cancer, she added, with the number of deaths from cervical cancer is high-income countries.

"Our concern is that this is a disease that is almost completely preventable through safe sex practices and early detection, however, still kills about half a million women each year.

"With adequate investment and specific policies, such as we have seen in places like the UK, we can reverse this trend.
Cancers of the two million women reach