In next two decades it is believed that percentage of people with cancer will increase by 45%, making the number of people suffering to around 2.3 millions. This figure is being compared to 1.6 million that is expected for the year 2010. If we believe American researchers as per them this disease will affect older adults as well minorities.
According to the statistics percentage of people with cancer will be almost the same. When asked to the University Managing Director Dr. Smith in a telephonic interview said that it’s the population trend that will affect the new cancer diagnosis.
He also said that in present scenario there are not much required facilities to overcome the expected increase in percentage of people with cancer. One can find more about Dr. Smith’s research in the Clinical Oncology Journal.
In his research from the Clinical Oncology society of America, he took out a very valid point that 40% percent of cancer specialists present in America are 55 years or older and almost all of them will retire by coming decade. And if we consider the new cancer specialists, there are very less number of new ones coming up as compared to ones getting retired. It is believed that by the end of 2030 we will have shortfall of around 3800 cancer specialists and this is a reason of much concern.
For his research on “percentage of people with cancer”, Dr. Smith and his team used the data for cancer rates from the United States Census Bureau. These data helped mainly helped them to analyze how the population change will affect the new rate of people suffering from cancer.