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Photon Foundation and Lancet boost research in Cancer
24 May, 2015, USA, USA NEWS CORP
Synergistic Global campaign is need of hour to ensure that the best available scientific evidence informs priority setting and decision making in the quest to control the global cancer epidemic. There is rising burden of cancer facing countries. most important risk factors driving these increases in burden are needed to be identified. Investment in surgical services should be affordable to saves lives, and promotes economic prosperity. Cancer surgery is an integral part of national cancer control plans. Deaths from cancer rose from 5·7 million in 1990 to 8·2 million in 2013, according to the latest data from the Global Burden of Disease Study.
Journal for Cancer, World's most read journal by Photon Foundation, recognizes The most common cancers as breast cancer, lung and bronchus cancer, prostate cancer, colon and rectum cancer, bladder cancer, melanoma of the skin, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid cancer, kidney and renal pelvis cancer, endometrial cancer, leukemia, and pancreatic cancer.
Photon Foundation recognized the important role played by The Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC) as the state-of-the-art R&D satellite of the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), which also includes under its umbrella the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), the largest cancer hospital in Asia. ACTREC has the mandate to function as a national centre for treatment, research and education in cancer. TMC is an autonomous grant-in-aid institution of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India. Photon Foundation is worldwide known for publishing high grade research articles, journals and books. The number of new cases of cancer (cancer incidence) is 454.8 per 100,000 men and women per year (based on 2008-2012 cases).
The number of cancer deaths (cancer mortality) is 171.2 per 100,000 men and women per year (based on 2008-2012 deaths). Cancer mortality is higher among men than women (207.9 per 100,000 men and 145.4 per 100,000 women). It is highest in African American men (261.5 per 100,000) and lowest in Asian/Pacific Islander women (91.2 per 100,000). (Based on 2008-2012 deaths.)
The number of people living beyond a cancer diagnosis reached nearly 14.5 million in 2014 and is expected to rise to almost 19 million by 2024. Approximately 39.6 percent of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes (based on 2010-2012 data). In 2014, an estimated 15,780 children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 were diagnosed with cancer and 1,960 died of the disease. National expenditures for cancer care in the United States totaled nearly $125 billion in 2010 and could reach $156 billion in 2020.
In the United States, the overall cancer death rate has declined since the early 1990s. The most recent Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, published in March 2015, shows that from 2002 to 2011, cancer death rates decreased by: 1.8 percent per year among men 1.4 percent per year among women 2.1 percent per year among children ages 0-14 2.3 percent per year among children ages 0-19
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) supports fellowships, research career development awards, and training/education research in all areas of cancer research, including cancer prevention, control, behavioral sciences, population sciences, translational research, at universities and institutions across the country. The following awards for predoctoral candidates, postdoctoral candidates, mentored new faculty, new faculty in independent research positions, and midcareer and established investigators are managed by the Cancer Training Branch.
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