Cancer was leading cause of death in 2008: StatsCan

[Locutus]

Statistics Canada says 2008 was the first year on record that cancer was the leading cause of death in every Canadian province and territory. The statistics agency said Tuesday that cancer caused 30 per cent of all deaths in Canada that year, followed by heart disease (21 per cent) and strokes (6 per cent). Rounding out the top ten causes of mortality were chronic lower respiratory diseases, accidents (unintentional injuries), diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, influenza and pneumonia, kidney disease and suicide. These 10 leading causes accounted for 77 per cent of all of the 238,617 deaths that occurred in 2008. StatsCan said there were observable trends in mortality in different age groups in the Canadian population. For elder Canadians aged 85 and older, heart disease was the leading cause of death, while cancer claimed the most lives of people aged 35 to 84. Accidents, or unintentional injuries, caused the highest number of deaths of Canadians aged 1 to 34, while congenital abnormalities were the most deadly threat to children under 12 months of age. StatsCan also named the top-three causes of death for Canadians aged 15 to 24: accidents, suicide and homicide. CTV Ottawa- Cancer was leading cause of death in 2008: StatsCan - CTV News

 

[petros]

Too much pink dye and pink teflon coated aluminum frying pans. That explains the increasing Cancer rates.

 

[mentalfloss]

So, if you're generally in good health, you have appear to have a 1 in 4000 chance of getting cancer.

Not bad odds.

 

[petros]

So, if you're generally in good health, you have appear to have a 1 in 4000 chance of getting cancer.

Not bad odds.

Noooo. Those are your odds of DIEING from not aquiring Cancer.

A Canadian male has 50/50 odds of getting cancer.

 

[WLDB]

I'm not all that surprised by this.

Nice to see that violent death is near the bottom of the list though whether by murder or suicide.

 

[JLM]

Methinks that's bullsh*t. Less than half the people who get cancer die from it. Less than 1/3 of people ever get cancer. Someone has an ulterior agenda methinks. :lol:

Methinks that's bullsh*t. Less than half the people who get cancer die from it. Less than 1/3 of people ever get cancer. Someone has an ulterior agenda methinks. :lol:

Here's an update to my figure which are a little out of date.

Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer

 

[TenPenny]

Methinks that's bullsh*t. Less than half the people who get cancer die from it. Less than 1/3 of people ever get cancer. Someone has an ulterior agenda methinks. :lol:



Here's an update to my figure which are a little out of date.

Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer

Your figures show a 1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer for males, and a 1 in 5 chance for females.

No surprise that it's the leading cause of death,then.

 

[darkbeaver]

In reality the leading cause of death across the board is western medicine. Hundreds of thousands die every year in the care of a physician. Amazingly in the third world the leading cause of death is the first world.

 

[TenPenny]

In reality the leading cause of death across the board is western medicine. Hundreds of thousands die in the care of a physician.

True, and it's amazing that people don't die in the third world.

We could learn a lot from that.

 

[JLM]

Your figures show a 1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer for males, and a 1 in 5 chance for females.

No surprise that it's the leading cause of death,then.

NO- 78% don't die from Cancer and heart attack and stroke make up the bulk of that.

 

[Cliffy]

What kills most cancer patients are the treatments. Chemo and radiation are beyond barbaric. There are plenty of safe cures that are kept under wraps because there is no money in it. For one, there is this:
Run From the Cure - The Rick Simpson Story - Cure Yourself from Cancer, Diabetes, MS, and more! - NaturalNews.tv

And you can look at this one, very simple:
Dr. Simoncini Baking Soda Treatment - Alternative Cancer Treatments

 

[darkbeaver]

The OP is a thinly veiled PR story for the Cancer Society and the drug pushing bankers.

 

[TenPenny]

NO- 78% don't die from Cancer and heart attack and stroke make up the bulk of that.

I guess you didn't read the link that you posted.

 

[VanIsle]

Methinks that's bullsh*t. Less than half the people who get cancer die from it. Less than 1/3 of people ever get cancer. Someone has an ulterior agenda methinks. :lol:



Here's an update to my figure which are a little out of date.

Lifetime Risk of Developing or Dying From Cancer

Those are interesting figures JLM. Seems strange that for the most part, the percentage is higher for men. I just assumed it would be the other way around. Breast cancer rates high and maybe that's where my assumption comes into play.

 

[JLM]

Those are interesting figures JLM. Seems strange that for the most part, the percentage is higher for men. I just assumed it would be the other way around. Breast cancer rates high and maybe that's where my assumption comes into play.

Yes, they are but I suspect they are world wide. I know the ones for pancreatic cancer seem awfully high, my doctor told me a few years ago that the annual incidence is 1/10000. Also the figures include all kinds of people with horrible life styles, so if you lead a normal lifestyle your chances are probably half or a third of those shown.

 

[JLM]

This is a good example of one of those stories, where there may be a bit of an ulterior motive. The headlines don't give the whole truth. Now a days there's probably a good 5% of the population living into their 90s, at least 10% getting past 85 and I'd like to see the cancer stastistics for say those 85 or older. When you reach 90 who gives a sh*t what you die of? Cancer is a scary enough disease without dramatising it.

 

[Tonington]

Your figures show a 1 in 4 chance of dying from cancer for males, and a 1 in 5 chance for females.

No surprise that it's the leading cause of death,then.

That data JLM presented is also for the US population. As cancer is an environmental disease, it's not surprising that Canada would have a different rate. Different populations, different environments. Between the provinces and territories there is quite a bit of variation, from a low of 24.4% of all deaths in Saskatchewan, to a high of 33.4% of all deaths in Quebec.

 

[JLM]

That data JLM presented is also for the US population. As cancer is an environmental disease, it's not surprising that Canada would have a different rate. Different populations, different environments. Between the provinces and territories there is quite a bit of variation, from a low of 24.4% of all deaths in Saskatchewan, to a high of 33.4% of all deaths in Quebec.

What percentage of deaths are reported correctly? Many people end up dying of pneumonia and the cause of death is shown as pneumonia which in many cases is due to a weakened condition caused by another disease.

 

[Tonington]

What percentage of deaths are reported correctly? Many people end up dying of pneumonia and the cause of death is shown as pneumonia which in many cases is due to a weakened condition caused by another disease.

Most of them are reported correctly. That doesn't mean the other disease was going to kill them...the cause of death is just that. People don't die from AIDS, it's not wrong to report the cause of death as influenza.

 

[Bar Sinister]

If you consider that cancer and heart disease have been the leading causes of death in the Western World for about the last eighty years why is this even surprising?