Posted on 06/11/2017 5:33:56 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
Report looks at liver cancer, fastest-growing cause of cancer deaths in US Significant disparities persist despite availability of effective interventions Date: June 8, 2017 Source: American Cancer Society Summary: A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for which death rates have doubled in the United States since the mid-1980s Share:
FULL STORY A new report provides an overview of incidence, mortality, and survival rates and trends for liver cancer, a cancer for which death rates have doubled in the United States since the mid-1980s, the fastest rise of any cancer in the U.S. The report appears in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, and says differences in major risk factors as well as inequalities in access to care have led to significant racial disparities in liver cancer mortality.
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The American Cancer Society estimates that liver cancer will account for about 41,000 new cancer cases and 29,000 cancer deaths in the United States in 2017. It is the fifth leading cause of cancer death in men and the eighth leading cause of cancer death in women. About 1.0 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with liver cancer in their lifetimes.
The report notes that liver cancer incidence has been rising in the U.S. since at least the mid-1970s, a trend that is expected to continue through at least 2030. One major factor contributing to the increase is a higher rate of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among baby boomers (born between 1945 through 1965). Among this age group, HCV prevalence is approximately 2.6%, a rate 6-fold greater than that of other adults. A rise in obesity and type II diabetes over the past several decades has also likely contributed to the trend. Other risk factors include alcohol, which increases liver cancer risk by about 10% per drink per day, and tobacco use, which increases liver cancer risk by approximately 50%.
Despite improvements in liver cancer survival in recent decades, only one in five patients survives five years after diagnosis.
The report identifies substantial disparity in liver cancer death rates by race/ethnicity, ranging from 5.5 per 100,000 in non-Hispanic whites to 11.9 per 100,000 in American Indians/Alaska Natives. There are also wide disparities by state, with the lowest death rates in North Dakota (3.8 per 100,000), and the highest in the District of Columbia (9.6 per 100,000).
The report says the wide racial and state disparities in liver cancer mortality reflect differences in the prevalence of major risk factors and, to some extent, inequalities in access to high-quality care. “However, most liver cancers are potentially preventable,” write the authors. “Interventions to curb the rising burden of liver cancer and reduce racial/ethnic and geographic disparities should include the targeted application of existing knowledge in prevention, early detection, and treatment, including improvements in [hepatitis B virus] vaccination, screening and treatment of HCV, maintaining a healthy body weight, access to high-quality diabetes care, prevention of excessive alcohol drinking, and tobacco control.
mexicans use the emergency room when they have the flu, but they won’t screen their livers with their hard-drinking high-calorie lifestyle? Agreed
Exactly, it’s their choice. You can’t force people to seek medical care.
We know why (wink)
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Prohibition would help.
Alcohol affects the liver. I wonder if they are also looking at long-term effects of marijuana use? Maybe that’s considered “inappropriate” for study.
Help me here. Everything you stated is factual. IQ is declining because of the influx of 3rd worlders and the population segment breeding like flies, fat is the trend what with kids playing with mostly electronic gadgets, and crime is up—20 million criminal aliens and the breeding population segment generating criminals at alarming rates.
Almost every new medication I see advertised on TV has consequences for the liver.
Yes, and marijuana clearly has some serious adverse effects on health, especially when it is smoked.
Alcohol and tobacco are the big ones. We can always avoid all medications.
That’s what killed John Coltrane at age 40 in 1967. He was a bit of a glutton, and went through the heroin thing, so who knows how much those contributed.
Milk thistle. Every day.
Has smoking increased? Has alcohol consumption? Just wondering.
I’ve a renewed interest in liver cancer with a sweet cousin who has it now. I’m certain she has never smoked and she has tasted alcohol only a few times in her life.
Smoking has decreased, but I think—my opinion here—that alcohol consumption has gone up.
Not following? Is there some active ingredient that prevents or treats liver cancer?
I had a granddad who died of lung cancer, having never smoked in his life. It’s almost impossible to figure out what causes what.
It’s for general liver health. I take it every day. Mine also has Dandelion, and I take Turmeric as well.
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