Cancer Deaths Decline

DISCOVERY increasingly sophisticated medical devices and methods continue to improve care for patients who successfully reduced the number of people with cancer and mortality due to cancer.

Cancer is one of the most dreaded disease of human on this earth. This disease became the second leading cause of death in the United States population. But medical science is slowly but surely, managed to conquer "attack" the cancer cells. The proof, the current level of death and diagnosis of all cancers overall declined significantly.

The results of this study apply all, both men and women, and for the largest racial and ethnic populations in the United States. The report put forward by the U.S. National Cancer Institute that is part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The American Cancer Society and The North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.

Mentioned in the report, a new diagnosis for all types of cancer declined an average of almost 1 percent per year from 1999 to 2006. While the deaths of people associated with cancer declined about 1.6 percent per year from 2001 to 2006. Annual evaluation itself is usually a routine matter released each December. Experts predict, the death rate from cancer continues to decline due to various studies by scientists have successfully unveil the mystery of how a cancer cell to attack and develop in the human body.

"We began to understand that every cancer that suffered by individual has a different process of destruction," said Dr. Alan G. Thorson, president of the American Cancer Society, who is also a clinical professor of surgery and director of colon and rectal surgery at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska United States. "We now know how to see a cancer, to find the source of the disease, then treat it, which certainly makes a difference in the world of medicine in the world," he said as quoted by page health day.com. Decrease the number of patients with cancer and ultimately death, especially to encourage progress in detecting and treating the major types of cancer in men and women.

According to the report, the type of cancer known sufferers include decreased lung cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer in men, and breast and colon cancer in women. Lung cancer in women who became the most feared, has also been reduced in stages, with the numbers remained stable since 2003. Said the doctor, there is no definitive answer why there is a decrease in cancer incidence which includes the major categories. But apparently, the manufacture of increasingly sophisticated detection tools and effective treatment programs for cancer patients, has contributed greatly to the realization that good news.

"For example, banning smoking in public spaces became an important and useful policies to reduce the incidence of lung cancer in men and also women," said Dr. Brenda Edwards, director of the Disease Control Research Program at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

"The biggest risk factor for lung cancer is smoking," said Edwards. "We've started to see the real impact of our joint efforts to restrict tobacco consumption," he continued.

He even noted, the decline in smoker numbers has been accompanied by legislation designed to ban smoking in public places.

Incidence of colon cancer or so-called colorectal cancer itself has decreased because of increased efforts to conduct early detection of cancer using a screening tool called a colonoscopy or other sophisticated methods. Edwards said, the colonoscopy can prevent the spread of colon cancer because doctors can immediately remove precancerous polyps of the colon during the initial procedure.

Meanwhile, Thorson said, the cause of declining rate of breast cancer patients because the method of mammograms as an early detection tool. And usually, he added, by way of early detection is early treatment of patients with cancer can be successfully treated. In addition, the consumption of the hormone replacement drugs for menopausal women will also be reduced. "Changes in hormone replacement therapy in women is an impact on the shrinking of patients (cancer)," said Edwards.

For prostate cancer, fewer sufferers because the use of increasingly effective tool for early detection and targeted through the use of tests that measure levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) in blood of a man, which can indicate the likelihood of cancer. "In addition to patient care procedures must continue to improve," explained Edwards.

Neither Edwards nor Thorson believes that the key to keep the number of cancer patients are always free fall is by involving various molecular and genetic research that could unlock the secret of how cancer cells spread. "We began to know what's going on inside the cell network so as to make they are 'behaving badly' and damage (the body), "Thorson said.

Various medical research will produce effective targeted therapies that will attack cancer cells and leave healthy cells alone survive. Thorson said, an increased understanding of human genes related problems by medical workers will also assist in the prevention of cancer.

By having knowledge about the genetics of cancer, the doctor as soon as possible anyone could identify people at high risk for suffering from one type of cancer and give them guidance on how to prevent cancer cells do not grow and grow. Other new breakthroughs in medicine and prevention methods is also very helpful.

For example, doctors have been using the vaccine to prevent cervical cancer or cervical cancer in women and examining other vaccines that are likely to stop the development of cancer.

But Thorson said a major breakthrough in cancer prevention can be useful if everyone already lead a healthy life in his daily life.

"If people start eating right, exercising regularly and avoiding bad habits like smoking, then the cancer will continue to fall," he explained. "We have the ability significantly to reduce the spread of cancer that has developed at this time," said Thorson.

"That is something we can do to prevent cancer, which is far better than creating new ways to treat cancer, after the (cancer) has progressed. Most people forget how much power we have now through simple lifestyle changes, "he added.