Why in India more women cancer

Women in India are likely to get cancer. Men are likely to die from it.

The paradox, revealed in study From the latest cancer register in the country tells the story just and embarrassed.

Women make up just over half of all new cases, but men make up most deaths.

India seems to be aliens. In 2022, every 100,000 people worldwide, about 197 were diagnosed with cancer this year. Men went worse, at 212 compared to 186 for women, reports World Cancer Research Fund.

Almost 20 million cancer cases were diagnosed worldwide in 2022 – about 10.3 million men and 9.7 million in women. In the United States, the estimated risk of cancer is almost equal to men and women, according to the US Cancer Society.

In India, the most common cancers among women are milk, cervical and ovaries. Breast cancer and cervix make up 40% of the female cases.

While cervical cancer is largely associated with infections such as human papillomus (HPV), breast cancer and ovaries often affect hormonal factors. The increasing cases of these cancers associated with the hormone are also associated with a lifestyle shift – including in the subsequent pregnancy, reducing breastfeeding, obesity and sedentary habits.

Men are dominated by oral, lungs and prostate rivers. Tobacco moves 40% of the prevented cancers, mainly oral and lungs.

So what’s going on in India? Is it an earlier diagnosis for women? Are men’s rivers more aggressive, or are habits such as smoking and chewing tobacco pull their results? Does the answer lie in differences in access, awareness and treatment between the sexes?

Information and advanced facilities mean that rivers common to women are often found earlier.

With their long periods of delay – sometimes between the influence of the factor that causes cancer and the appearance of pronounced cancer – the results of treatment are relatively good.

Thus, the death rate among women is lower.

Men are even worse. Their rivers are most often associated with lifestyles – tobacco and alcoholic lungs and oral cancers, both aggressive and less compassionate to treatment.

Men are also less likely to go for preventive checks or seek medical care early. Bottom line: Higher mortality and bad results, even if the disease is lower than among women.

“Women’s health has become greater attention to public health campaigns, and this is a two-sided sword. Higher awareness and examination mean that more cancers are evident.

“Women, through reproductive health checks, are likely to consult a doctor at some stage. A lot of men can go all their lives without seeing it,” said D -Redroat.

But the real story arises when the number is broken: the load on India’s cancer is uneven in the regions, and the types of cancer are faced.

Data from 43 registers show that 11 of every 100 people in India risk developing cancer at some point throughout their lives. It is estimated that 1.56 million cases and 874,000 deaths are forecast for 2024.

The huge and relatively remote north -east region remains a hot river point in India, and the Mizorama Aizul area, which records life, risks twice as much in the country.

Doctors say most of this comes down to lifestyle.

“For most cancers in the North -Eastern state, I am convinced that lifestyle is a key factor. The use of tobacco is playing here – much higher than in other places,” Ravi Kannan, head of the Kashar Cancer and the Asame Research Center told me.

“In the Barack Valley in ASAM, this is basically chewing tobacco; 25 km in Mizorah is dominated.

But the sample is not limited to the northern East. Schrinar in Indian Kashmiri heads lung cancer graphs in men, while the city of South Hyderabad leads to a breast river. Men in the capital, Delhi, diagnose all rivers gathered together with a higher rate than men in other regions, even after correcting age -related differences.

Oral cancer is also increasing: 14 population registers report that men and four women are increasing.

India’s risk patchwork is part of the greater truth: cancer is immediately the most versatile and the most uneven disease. The differences observed in the Indian states reflect the global party, in the form of geography, income and access to help.

In wealthy countries, each of the 12 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer throughout life, but only one of 71 will die from who.

In poor countries, the picture is canceled: only each of the 27 women if you get a diagnosis, but one will die at 48.

“Women from a smaller human development index (HDI) are 50% less prone to diagnose breast cancer than women in high -level countries, but they are much more risk of death from the disease from the untimely diagnosis and insufficient access to qualitative treatment,” says Isabel Sorejamat River (IARC).

Then there are other differences. For example, in the United States, indigenous Americans face the highest mortality of cancer, kidney, liver, stomach and death of the cervix two -three times higher than white; Black people also have twice the mortality of white for prostate cancer, stomach and uterus, according to the American Cancer Society.

In India, cancer load is not just growing – it is becoming more complicated. The register data reflects the society in the transition where longevity, lifestyle and the environment redo the risk to health.

However, against the background of this changing landscape there are many questions, emphasizing the urgent need for purposeful prevention, early detection and lifestyle changes, including healthier diets and habits.

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