Spain to have 246,000 new cancer cases by 2020: report
Xinhua, February 4, 2016 Adjust font size:
A study published on Wednesday by the Spanish Society for Medical Oncology estimated that the country will have 246,713 new cases of cancer by 2020.
The study estimates that 148,998 of those cases will be in men and 97,715 in women, with a third of those cases provoked by "avoidable" factors such as tobacco, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle.
One major factor in the rise in cases is that Spain has an aging population and as people grow older they are more at risk of developing a tumor of one kind or another, according to the report.
In 2012, the most commonly detected forms of cancer were colon, prostate, lung and breast.
The report estimates that cancer caused 102,762 deaths in Spain in 2012 and the disease is predicted to cause 117,859 deaths in 2020, when lung and colon cancer will become the biggest killers. Endit