Cancer becomes the biggest economic killer in disease

Cancer becomes the biggest economic killer in disease
Cancer becomes the biggest economic killer in disease
According to August 16 of American media, association calls U.S.A.'s cancer in a new report, cancer is a kind of disease causing the greatest economic losses in the world. The enormous report of economic losses that cancer causes points out, in 2008, the economic losses that cancer brings are 895 billion dollars, it is equivalent to 1 of the global total output value. 5%, this loss is not referring to and treating the expenses of cancer, but the wounded or disabled and reduction of the working life that cancer causes, how much are the therapeutic expenses that this report has not proved the whole world has been used in cancer. Among them, lung cancer relevant cancer cause 180 billion loss, smoker average life span than smoker 15 year shorter. The losses that heart disease causes are second only to cancer, the amount of money is 753 billion dollars. World Health Organization (W H O) Predicting this year since for a long time, cancer will exceed heart disease and become the main cause of the death. In 2008, about 7,600,000 people will die of cancer, probably there are 12,400,000 new cancer cases every year. Prevent and cure cancer and put into and report and summarize and say, cancer has high death toll more than what AIDS, malaria, influenza and other infective diseases cause too few. The research institution of a policy in Washington claims, over 60% death in the world relates to chronic disease such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes, but the public and private fund that these diseases get is less than 3%. The seat of honor medical officer Brawley of U.S.A.'s cancer association says, preventing and curing the input of infectious disease can't be reduced, but to other chronic diseases, each side, to preventing and curing input of cancer too few. Tobacco and fat to let more people infect with chronic disease, vaccine and advanced medical technology make some infective infection rate of disease drop to some extent already. A lot of organizations appeal for people for more concerns of the cause of the death of non- infective disease, the United Nations General Assembly has already determined to hold a special meeting for this next year too. Analyst think this piece increase AIDS preventing and controlling before the decision and about 10 year globle action of funds meaning equally important. Pay close attention to the fact financial burden W H O cancer of chronic disease controls medical officer Ullrich of the department to say, what a burden from chronic disease increasing constantly the United Nations needs discussing!; People should not dispute for the fund allocation among various chronic disease, but the field to be overlapped at disease strengthens cooperation, for example have cancer, cervical cancer and papilla tumour and virus of infection reason. It is really economic losses that cancer cause from the viewpoint of global productivity of the first time of people that this share of the cancer association is reported to, the investigator has studied the death of W H O and economic data of deformity report and World Bank, this association plans to publish it on a science periodical, and submit this report to World Conference on cancer. Gram of president of Harvard University public commune hospital Furlong is one of the authors of this report, he say 5% cancer prevent and cure fund, flow into those bear 80% the intersection of cancer and country of patient only, in fact, there is a lot of expensive treatment means, even can implement in the poorest area.


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