Why is Australia the country with the highest cancer rate in the world while Vietnam ranks 100th?

Being a country with a clean environment and a clean food source, Australia has the highest proportion of people suffering from cancer. The risk of men is 20 times higher than in Europe.

On September 12, the International Agency for Cancer Research of the World Health Organization (WHO) published a ranking of adjusted cancer rates by age (number of cancer cases / 100,000 people) in both gender of 172 countries and territories around the world.

Accordingly, Australia ranked at the top of the list (468 / 100,000), the United States has the fifth rate of cancer in the world (352.2 / 100,000), China has the 68th rate of cancer in the world (201 , 7 / 100,000) and Vietnam has the world's 100th rate of cancer (151.4 / 100,000).

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The data show that the incidence of cancer tends to increase in most countries in the world, of which about 70% in developing countries. Other Top 10 countries are New Zealand, Ireland, Hungary, the US, Belgium, France, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands.

According to WHO, about 18.1 million people will be diagnosed with cancer by 2018, more than 9.6 million will die.

In Vietnam, the number of new cancer cases increased rapidly from 68,000 people in 2000 to 126,000 in 2010. It is expected that this number will increase to about 200,000 cases in 2020. Every year our country has about 115,000 people died of cancer, about 315 deaths a day.

Why is Australia the highest cancer rate in the world?

As a modern country with a clean environment with little smoke and clean food sources, Australia is always in the first destination of many international tourists. However, the country of pocket mice faces the highest proportion of people suffering from cancer in the world.

In 2018, an estimated 197,876 newly discovered Australians have cancer, of which 120,034 are male.

The most common type of cancer in Australia is non-melanoma skin cancer, with 59,278 new cases and a death rate of only 1.79% in 2018. According to the Australian Cancer Council, 2/3 of the population The country will be diagnosed with skin cancer before age 70.

Next is breast cancer and prostate cancer, with a total of 18,000 new cases this year. Prostate cancer is the most dangerous, with 3290 deaths this year.

According to CNN, the cause of skin cancer is called "endemic epidemic", Australia's "national cancer" is due to the ozone layer phenomenon of the Earth appearing in Antarctica, so the exposure status UV rays are increasing.

Data from the Texas Melanoma Cancer Cell Research Foundation (USA) says Australia and New Zealand have the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. The rate of malignancy among women in Australia is 10 times higher than in Europe, and the incidence in men is 20 times higher.

According to Professor David Whitman of the Qimil Berghof Institute of Medicine in Queensland, climate factors also contribute to an increase in the rate of melanoma in Australia, for example, in the summer, the sky here is blue because of pollution. The air is relatively light.

"In addition, many people have migrated to low latitudes, are sunny and this is also a factor causing skin cancer disaster , " said Professor David Whitman.

More dangerous is that some Australians still ignore government warnings about the risk of skin cancer and still prefer tanned skin (natural and artificial). Of course, ultraviolet radiation emitted from "tanning" devices also increases the risk of skin cancer.

Currently, the Australian government and community organizations have been making great efforts to change their minds about "Australians of copper". They use the slogan 'Slip, Slop, Slap' to motivate people to take the initiative to "wear shirts, apply sunscreen and wear hats".