Canada's cancer crisis
24th Nov 2005, 16:58 GMT
Canada appears to be heading towards a cancer crisis. It is not the pure Northern air or anything in the drinking water that accounts for this, but rather a growing population, and aging baby boomers. These two factors are straining the country's health care system. If the current trends of 1% annual population growth while diagnosed cancer cases grow by 2% annually, then "it is expected that 5.7 million Canadians will develop cancer and 2.7 million people will die of the disease over the next 30 years." Early detection and prevention, coupled with healthy lifestyle changes, will be the greatest defenses in the fight against cancer. Read Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
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