Researchers are presenting more cancer cases. Is Canada ready?

By 2050, the number of cancer cases and deaths expect balloons, according to A New report From Lancet The medical journal was published today. Researchers say that this trend is expected to play in Canada, and health care systems now need to start preparations to avoid preparable cancer and to avoid health care to prevent health care systems.

In 2023, there were 18.5 million new cancer cases globally, except for non-melonoma skin cancer. By 2050, this number is expected to increase by 30.5 million.

The number of cancer deaths by 2050 is expected to increase even more dramatically. In 2023, 10.4 million cancer deaths occurred. In 2050, the researcher project 18.6 million people will die of cancer.

Researchers say that since 2024, the deaths of cancer shows an increase of 75 percent.

Three cancers that kill most people around the world as 2024 – cancer in the windpipe and lungs; Cancer in colon and rectum; Authors say stomach cancer is expected to increase by 2050.

In high -income countries such as Canada, growth is mainly inspired by aging and increasing population, the authors of the study say.

“Surely there will be other people who will be cancer in Canada – not because cancer is increasing, but only because people in Canada are living for a long time,” said Ali Mokadad, a professor of health matrix science at Washington University and one of the authors of studies.

When the researchers standardized the data, to see if a person had changed the possibility of cancer, he found that cancer mortality was actually in a decline in high -income countries such as Canada. From 1990 to 2023, the cancer rate decreased by 9 percent per 100,000, while cancer dies by 29 percent.

Mokadad says that in Canada, doctors are first diagnosing cancer cases compared to other countries.

“You guys have universal healthcare. Many countries do not have so – I am now in America, including the country,” said Mokadad.

In some low and moderate income countries, according to research, the rate of cancer is going in the opposite direction.

Countries like Lebanon have seen cancer rate and increase in deaths even after controlling age. Mokadad says it is due to other risk factors such as smoking, exposure to environmental pollution and drinking alcohol, which is growing in some of these countries.

Researchers say that variable risk factors such as tobacco use and unhealthy diets were related to 42 percent of cancer worldwide. Of these, the use of tobacco was identified as a major risk factor, which researchers found that 21 percent contributed to 21 percent of cancer deaths.

Mokadad says that in countries with limited equipment for catching cancer and treatment, researchers found uneven levels of cancer deaths.

Canada needs to be prepared

Even in high-ie countries like Canada where the mortality is decreasing, the fact is: The complete number of cancer cases and complete number of deaths are expected to increase in the coming decades.

Mokadad says that health care systems need to prepare to meet the cancer screening and prepare to treat more cancer patients to meet that requirement.

If we do not – then there will be a human cost: cancer is being caught too late to treat effectively, and people who die from cancer who can be effectively treated, call Mokadad.

Mokadad says that if we do not start preparations for more cancer cases now, then there will also be economic results: Cancer caught in later stages can be more expensive and difficult for treatment.

According to data from the study authors, cancer cases and deaths have been increasing in Canada for decades for decades, almost doubled from 1990 to 2023.

Princess Margaret Cancer Care Network Director Dr. Dr. in Toronto. Keith Stewart says he already feels stressed in his hospital network with the number of cancer patients in his hospital in his hospital.

“We are starting to run into issues of running into issues of enough chairs for people and getting their … chemotherapy.

Stewart says that the hospital is so far able to manage high volume – but he worries about the future.

He said, “We have probably not planned well to deal with the increase in quantity as the age of the population and especially more patients are long alive,” he said.

Stewart says that hospitals need to take a multi-dimensional approach. They need more beds and better appointment scheduling systems to deal with more patients individually, and more investment is required to improve home care. All these require careful planning with the provincial authorities.

Stewart says that patients who survive for a long time after diagnosis of their cancer have their own sets of needs, and those support also requires investment.