Cancer overtakes heart disease as biggest rich-world killer

LONDON - Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in wealthy countries and could become the world’s biggest killer within just a few decades if current trends persist, researchers said on Tuesday.

While cardiovascular disease remains, for now, the leading cause of mortality worldwide among middle-aged adults - accounting for 40% of all deaths - that is no longer the case in high-income countries, where cancer now kills twice as many people as heart disease, the findings showed. Around 70% of all cardiovascular cases and deaths are due to modifiable risks such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diet, smoking and other lifestyle factors.

Smoking en unhealthy food and drinks are killing people. BigPharma BigFood BigSoda BigArgo

And yet we ‘haven’t discovered’ a complete cure.

Doctor: We think you might have breast cancer. Me: So? Doctor: We need to treat the cancer or it will kill you. Me: Cancer may or may not kill me but your cancer “treatments” are statistically almost certain to kill me. I’ll take my chances with cancer and my faith in fate.

Worrying trend!

That must explain the diet they're on, cancer-causing Chipotle.

dhovekamp42 The common denominator here is the availability to calorie dense highly processed foods.

Poison in our water, air, & land affect us. Duh!

Big business always wins. Even more money will be made now that cancer is 1 .

Believe it or not, the bottom line in this article is that death rates from cardiovascular disease are falling. A good thing, you’d assume.

Subuhanallah

'Slow and steady wins the race.'

Cure for Cancer foods 'For every illness God has made a cure, except death' - Muhammad God's Messenger.

Sure hope this breakthrough pops its head up in a news article again soon

Give me a C, give me an A....

the cancer cures kill. Cancer does nothing mostly unless a superbad form or intels effort hideouskills allalong.

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