Medical advances in cancer control
Stressed physicians specializing in the fight against cancer that the growing use of drugs that hinder the growth and spread of the disease, known therapies target has improved in recent years methods of treatment of cancer. According to The Washington Times reported that the field of medicine over the past few decades several stages of progress in the fight against cancer, and that the world has become today's medicines and treatment plans for a new and modern facilities to help care for cancer patients.
According to the National Institutes of Health U.S. cost of cancer last year only about 219 billion dollars in direct medical costs instead of labor productivity, and each year get sick about half a million people in the United States.
The American Cancer Society expects to be 1.4 million diagnosed cases of cancer this year and the death of about 565.650 people, because of illness, and about 170 thousand cases related to smoking.
And the National Institutes of Health estimated that 1.8 million Americans have a history with the disease were still alive in January 2004, which means that some people cured of the disease and others are still opposed by many of the disease and can be subject to treatment.
And low mortality
According to the American Cancer Society, cancer mortality rates declined since the beginning of the nineties, despite population growth and the increasing number of elderly people.
A report of the Assembly in 2007 that the death rates from most common types of cancer - prostate, breast, lung and colon - and cancers in general have continued to decline last year.
The researchers attributed the progress in the fight against cancer to several factors combined such early detection and better understanding of its causes and how it evolved and technical improved diagnosis, treatment and new drugs.
Doctors also pointed out that the growing use of drugs that hinder the growth and spread of the disease known as targeted therapies, in recent years has improved the treatment of the disease significantly, these drugs are targeting specific molecules that cause or help spread the disease.
By focusing on molecular and cellular changes of the disease, could be targeted therapies more effective and less harmful to normal cells.
The Washington Times that the draft human genome has allowed scientists to identify genetic changes and genetic gained that contribute to increased susceptibility to cancer and, finally, to allow doctors to calculate risk based on each patient individually.
The doctors said that the field of medicine moving towards the day when cancer treatment Kda chronic, and this is what happened with AIDS.
The newspaper concluded that the budget of the National Institutes of Health increased from 7.6 billion dollars in 1990 to 28.5 billion dollars in 2006, also increased the budget of the National Cancer Institute from 1.6 billion dollars in 1990 to 4.8 billion in 2006.
Still total expenditure on cancer each year is about 11.5 billion dollars, which represents one sixth of what is spent annually on soft drinks
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