Cancer is a disease that costs the most modern societies in economic terms. A report from the American Cancer Society has been released to coincide with a conference on the disease to be held in China reveals a burden will increase further in the future.
In terms of labor productivity, the tumors and cancer have a greater burden of accounting for AIDS, malaria, influenza and other infectious diseases combined. In 2008, the burden of this disease was around 900,000 dollars (700,000 million euros), equivalent to 1.5% of global GDP. And that taking into account only their impact on productivity and years of life lost, not including what they cost treatments (increasingly expensive).
Indeed, as highlighted in this week's newspaper "The Washington Post, leading oncologists call an international movement similar to that already experienced the financing of HIV in the nineties to cope with the weight of tumors in the economy world.
The Cancer Cost
"It is not about taking money from infectious diseases," says Otis Brawley, director of the Society (one of the largest oncology agents nonprofit world), but cancer cost devote the attention it deserves.
According to his data, chronic diseases (cancer, diabetes, heart disease ...) cause 60% of global mortality, but receive only 3% of the global public and private funding.
The problem, recalled the report of the ACS (conducted in collaboration with the foundation's Livestrong Lance Armstrong), is that this disease affects individuals earlier in life than others, such as cardiovascular disease, which is a blow in the prime of its life.
In terms of labor productivity, the tumors and cancer have a greater burden of accounting for AIDS, malaria, influenza and other infectious diseases combined. In 2008, the burden of this disease was around 900,000 dollars (700,000 million euros), equivalent to 1.5% of global GDP. And that taking into account only their impact on productivity and years of life lost, not including what they cost treatments (increasingly expensive).
Indeed, as highlighted in this week's newspaper "The Washington Post, leading oncologists call an international movement similar to that already experienced the financing of HIV in the nineties to cope with the weight of tumors in the economy world.
The Cancer Cost
"It is not about taking money from infectious diseases," says Otis Brawley, director of the Society (one of the largest oncology agents nonprofit world), but cancer cost devote the attention it deserves.
According to his data, chronic diseases (cancer, diabetes, heart disease ...) cause 60% of global mortality, but receive only 3% of the global public and private funding.
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