News Hub Creator 02/5/2022
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 10 million people died of cancer worldwide in 2021. View pictures in App save up to 80% data.
This was revealed in a statement released in honor of World Cancer Day 2022, which has the subject "Closing the Care Gap."
It noted that the disease has become one of the world's major causes of mortality and predicted that the death toll would continue to climb in the coming years.
"The world crossed a sobering new threshold in 2021, when an estimated 20 million people were diagnosed with cancer and 10 million died," the statement stated. "These figures will continue to climb in the next decades." All malignancies, however, can be treated, and many can be avoided or cured.
"However, cancer treatment, like so many other diseases, reflects the world's disparities and imbalances. The gap between high and low income countries is the clearest, with comprehensive treatment allegedly available in more than 90% of high income countries but less than 15% of low income countries."
According to the WHO, high-income countries have a survival rate of more than 80%, whereas low- and middle-income countries have a survival rate of fewer than 30%.
It was discovered that in most high income nations, breast cancer survival has topped 80% five years following diagnosis, compared to 66% and 40% in India and South Africa, respectively.
According to the organization, cancer services were covered by a country's major government health financing scheme in an estimated 37% of low- and middle-income countries, compared to at least 78 percent of high-income countries, according to a recent survey.
This means that a cancer diagnosis can push families into poverty, especially in low income countries — an effect that has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the WHO.
The topic for this year's World Cancer Day is "closing the care gap" for all of these reasons, according to the statement. "And, thankfully, much is being done to offer high quality cancer care to nations where it has previously been unavailable." Breast cancer, which is now the most frequent cancer, cervical cancer, which may be eliminated, and children cancer are the focus of WHO's efforts. Each of these projects focuses on low and middle income nations, where the greatest benefits in public health can be accomplished."
More than 200 partners throughout the world are implementing these integrated global cancer efforts, according to the agency, including many development banks that have greatly expanded their contributions in cancer research, prevention, and care.