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A new report shows that cancer has overtaken heart disease as the most common cause of death in Ireland with the aging of the population.
Invasive cancers and badociated tumors cause an average of 8,875 deaths per year, the equivalent of a person who died of the disease every hour, according to the annual report of the National Cancer Registry.
However, more people than ever before are living with the disease, as invasive cancer survival rates have improved markedly over the last 20 years: from 40% to 62% for men and from 48% to 60% for women .
More than 41,000 new invasive and non-invasive cancers have been diagnosed each year over the 2016-2018 period. One in five of them were non-invasive tumors and another quarter were non-melanoma skin cancers.
This equates to an average of 112 people diagnosed with cancer each day.
The total number of cancers diagnosed has increased by 85% since the mid-1990s, due to population growth and aging.
The report warns that cases could double between 2015 and 2045, baduming the population continues to grow and age at current rates.
Wake up call
The Irish Cancer Society has described this forecast as an "alarm bell", calling for immediate action by the government and citizens.
"Although these projections are bleak, they must not become a reality," said managing director Averil Power. "By improving our lifestyles and using free screening, each of us can dramatically reduce our risk of getting cancer.
"Four out of 10 cancers are preventable. We can all reduce our risk of cancer by eating healthy, exercising and limiting our consumption of alcohol.
Professor Kerri Clough-Gorr, director of the National Cancer Registry, said the project could be maintained at 50% if recent trends in some cancers – for example, lower lung and prostate cancer rates in the US # 39; man – continued.
"This will probably require sustained and expanded attention on cancer prevention, through appropriate interventions and education."
Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common form of the disease, with nearly 11,000 cases, followed by prostate cancer, with 3,500 cases. Lung cancer, however, remains the leading cause of cancer in both men and women.
Living with cancer
The report shows that more people than ever live with or after cancer, survival rates have improved over the past 20 years. In total, 173,000 cancer survivors – or 3.7% of the population – were alive at the end of 2016.
The five-year survival rate for colorectal cancer increased from 48% to 62% for men and from 52% to 63% for women between 1994-1998 and 2010-2014. Lung cancer survival rates increased from 8% to 16% for men and 9% to 21% for women.
For bad cancer in women, the increase went from 72% to 83%; for prostate cancer from 66% to 92%; and for cutaneous melanoma, from 73% to 84% for men and from 88% to 92% for women.
The report records an average of 287 cases of cervical cancer and a lifetime risk that one in every 100 women is affected. A five-year survival rate for cervical cancer is 62%.
Power called on the government to ensure that the cancer prevention recommendations in the national cancer strategy are fully implemented.
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