Why is cancer more apparent in the developed world?

Question

Hi there. I suspect i is becase everyone smokes, drinks, lives by power stations, radiation, radio waves etc,

Many times i have seen cancer attributed to the developed world, why exactly is this

J

or is it because we can diagnose it

Answer 1

Vaccination, toxic air and food, radio waves etc.


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Answer 2

I would say your suspicion is right. Just about everything we eat or go near is said to be carcinogenic so I reckon that's why. I don't know facts and figures but there certainly doesn't seem to be as much cancer in the developing world. Then again there are other factors too. Some poor countries only have a live expectancy of around 40 years so other killers get to them first - malaria, diarrhoea, traffic accidents and violence.

Answer 3

I would say that it is more apparent because it does not get diagnosed in the underdeveloped or undeveloped world.

It is also quite likely that, as people tend to die younger in the Third World, from preventable diseases or violence, many of them are killed before they had a chance to develop cancer.

I guess that cancer is what happens when you smoke, drink, and eat crap, live next to a nuclear power station, breathing in traffic pollution, drinking chemicals, holding a microwave transmitting phone next to your head, while being able to enjoy the luxury of living long enough to suffer the consequences!

Answer 4

It may be some of the things you have mentioned but it may be that it is detected and registered more in the developed world but just as rife but undetected in the third world countries

A few years a go they announced that it was healthy to eat red wine and garlic as the French had less deaths from heart failure and they put it down to the diet. A year later they announced that they did not know the true extent of heart failure in France as a lot of deaths were registered as natural causes and included some that were obviously heart failure.

Answer 5

I think it is a bit of both.

Lifestyle is obviously a contributing factor - smoking, drinking etc. I do think that many cancers probably go undiagnosed in developing (3rd world) countries so the statistics show that developed people suffer more.

Answer 6

Both...

You just answered your self...

But do you know that there are more cancer patients in countries that are not developed....

Do you know that, those people are more happier and living a joyful life....

Do you know that they dont know whats eating them apart...

Do you know that they will live a normal life and die just like any normal individual at the right time...

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If there is any Cancer in this world then its these Stupid doctors who just make a mountain of a mole....why.....cause they know that the guy in front has money or has an heafty insurance....so all you need is to prove on records that he/she has something and there you go another rich doctor...busy doing lots of unnecessary surgeries or services...

Answer 7

part of the reason is that the life expectancy in the "developed" world is higher - and the longer you live, the more chance you have of developing cancer - a typical example being prostate cancer, which is more likely to appear in older men, when in some countries they'll be lucky to reach 50, and therefore die before any prostate cancer developes enough to be noticed.

Answer 8

I really think it has to do with the amount of pollution as well as the fact our medical facilities are more advanced/people go to the doctor more than under developed countries.

Answer 9

Maybe it's because people live longer in developed countries and cancers tend to come out later in life.

Maybe it's because people in less developed countries don't eat all the crap we eat, sweets burgers, processed foods.

Answer 10

I have to agree with you. It's probably do to the lives that we lead - poor diet, long working hours, high stess levels, smoking, drinking, drugs, etc.