Survival of Cancer Depends On Where You Live
A new study has revealed that your surviving cancer has a lot to do with where you live and what color you are. This is all about how accessible health care is and how effective your health services are where you live.
The Concord Studied viewed data on over 1.9 million patients with cancer in 31 different countries. They compared survival rates over a five year period of people with prostate, breast, rectal, and colon cancers.
It turns out if you have breast or prostate cancer, the United States is where you want to be, but men with rectal and colon cancers do way better in Japan. Woman with the same cancers may want to move to France.
Australia and Canada have high survival rates for all, and the lowest belongs to Algeria.
Within the United States, New York City had the lowest survival for all cancers, except for Wyoming where a woman with rectal cancer does worse than all. If you’re in the United States and you have cancer Hawaii is the best place to be. The highest rate for survival of prostate cancer is Seattle, and Idaho is no couch potato having a very high survival rate for rectal cancer.
White people in the United States survive at a rate of 7% higher for prostate cancer and 14% higher for breast cancer. Researchers believe this results from early vs. latter stage diagnosis.
The countries with the worst cancer survival rates were Poland and Slovakia. France ranked highest for colon and rectal cancer survival, while Sweden had the highest for breast cancer. Austria had the highest survival rate for prostate cancer.
Overall the United States had a 10% higher survival rating with breast cancer then did Europe, and a 34% higher rate of prostate cancer.
It’s hoped that this information will help countries and areas to find where they are lacking and fill in those gaps.
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