Cancer rates are increasing in the United States – especially for Young and medium -sized women in middle agewhose cancer diagnoses have exceeded men. According to the American Cancer Society, women under 50 are now developing cancer almost twice as often than men of the same age, so Latest cancer statistics report– And the gap has been expanding since the early 2000s.
Experts say that there are probably several factors for the growing cancer rates in young adults, including Bacterial child exposure And Ultra-processed food. New research results show another monumental guilty, especially for women: climate change.
In a new study published in the magazine Limits of public healthThe researchers found that the climate change-elongated change in temperature and weather patterns, which are mainly due to the burning fossil fuels–behind the increasing cancer rates and deaths in women in the Middle East and North Africa.
“With increasing temperatures, cancer mortality in women – especially for ovarian and breast cancer,” said the leading author Wafa Abuelkheir Mataria from American University in Cairo in the Press release. “Although the increase per degree is modest, their cumulative effects on public health are significant.”
The study, the data from 17 countries from the Middle East and the North African countries, which gave the strongest for heating temperatures (Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, and Palish, and Palish, and Palish, and Palish. Pallic, and Palic, and Palic Emirates made Tunisia, the united Arabs, and in the united Arabs, in the united Arabs and in the United States. Uternic cancer and compared the data between 1998 and 2019 with changing temperatures.
They found that the prevalence of the various cancers rose from 107 to 280 cases per 100,000 people for all other degrees Celsius, with ovarian cancer cases the most increasing and the least breast cancer. Mortality doubled more than doubled, from 160 to 332 deaths per 100,000 people for every temperature increase with the greatest increase in ovarian cancer and in cervical cancer.
When the researchers broke up the overall data to land, the cancer prolongs and deaths in only six countries set up: Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Syria, and speculates this can be attributed to particularly extreme summer temperatures in these countries. They also observed that the increase between the countries was not uniform – the prevalence of breast cancer increased by 560 cases per 100,000 people for every degree Celsius in Qatar and 330 in Bahrain. The researchers point out that the increase in installments is low, but is statistically significant enough to suggest a remarkable increase in cancer risk and mortality over time.
How does climate change affect the cancer rates?
As a result of climate change, the Americans experience hotter summer, milder winters, shift in rain and snow patterns and more extreme weather events such as record heat waves and devastating hurricanes Environmental protection authority.
In addition, it is known that climate change causes and worsens health problems worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Polluted air, water and soil due to increased use of fossil fuels and high temperatures caused by global warming, health, while natural disasters, which were tightened by climate change, lead to chronic stress, poor mental health and reduced social support, while the infrastructure and access to health care and access drops.
Climate change also leaves people exposed to more environmental toxins and receives less quickly diagnosis and treatment.
“The temperature rise is probably over several ways,” said co-author Sungsoo Chun from American University in Cairo. “It increases exposure to known carcinogenic, disrupts the submission of health care and can even influence biological processes at a cellular level. Together these mechanisms could increase the risk of cancer over time.”
As Chun emphasized, several factors could be put together to advance them. For example, increased heat could be carried out together with higher carcinogenic air pollution.
According to Chun, women remain more susceptible to climate medical health risks.
“This is reinforced by inequalities that restrict access to health care,” she said in the press release. “Marginalized women are exposed to a multiplied risk because they are exposed to more environmental hazards and are less able to access early screening and treatment services.”
Although some could argue that better cancer screening leads to higher prevalence rates, the researchers countered with the statement that improvements in screening should lead to fewer deaths because cancer is easier to treat in the early stage. Since both prevalence and mortality rates rose, the researchers believe that the risk of climate change is the driving factors and demand that risks in connection with public health.
“This study cannot produce a direct causality,” said Mataria. “While we have checked the per capita BIP, other factors that have not been measured could contribute to this. Nevertheless, consistent associations, which have been observed in several countries and cancer types, offer convincing reasons for further investigations.”
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