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cancer rates

  • 20-12-2015 12:20pm
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    melissak
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    Is it true that we have the second highest rate of cancer in Ireland? If true Is this because of more cancer or better detection rates?


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  • #2
    Pat Mustard
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    Moved to Health Sciences in hope of replies.

    Please note that the Health Sciences forum charter now applies.


  • #3
    Kurtosis
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    melissak wrote: »
    Is it true that we have the second highest rate of cancer in Ireland? If true Is this because of more cancer or better detection rates?

    Having a look at the available data from the World Cancer Research Fund International, Ireland has the 7th highest rate/incidence of cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). More detailed information is available from the WHO and National Cancer Registry Ireland.

    You're right that a high rate of cancer isn't just down to the underlying true incidence of the disease in the population but also how effectively we are able to detect it in the population. On that topic, there's been a good bit of discussion lately on why improved detection/screening is not without its risks - some of the additional cases picked up may never have progressed and caused any harm to the patient and so some people may be treated unnecessarily. There was a thread about this in relation to breast cancer a few months back.


  • #4
    melissak
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    penguin88 wrote: »
    Having a look at the available data from the World Cancer Research Fund International, Ireland has the 7th highest rate/incidence of cancer (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). More detailed information is available from the WHO and National Cancer Registry Ireland.

    You're right that a high rate of cancer isn't just down to the underlying true incidence of the disease in the population but also how effectively we are able to detect it in the population. On that topic, there's been a good bit of discussion lately on why improved detection/screening is not without its risks - some of the additional cases picked up may never have progressed and caused any harm to the patient and so some people may be treated unnecessarily. There was a thread about this in relation to breast cancer a few months back.
    Very interesting.. Thank you


  • #5
    gctest50
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    vaguely related bit of reading for ya
    http://www.ncri.ie/atlas/211-potential-explanations-geographical-variation-cancer-incidence

    The relative risk of developing many of the cancers presented here was higher in RoI than in NI. The risk of non-melanoma skin cancer, melanoma, leukaemia, bladder, pancreas and brain/central nervous system cancer was significantly higher for both sexes in RoI. For men, the risk of prostate cancer was higher in RoI and, for women, cancer of the oesophagus and cervix. In NI, the risk of lung cancer was higher for both sexes as was that of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, head and neck cancers and cancer of the corpus uteri for women.

    The possibility therefore exists that some of these differences are due to the methods by which cases are registered


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