SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Oncology, Susan Sontag, Childhood Obesity
Document Summary
Agenda: global rates of cancer: links to infections, cancer, lifestyle & upstream vs. downstream intervention, the experience of cancer in context of history of science & medicine, phenomenology of physical & mental disintegration (in old age) Experience of illness depends on how it is perceived/conceptualized through the culture: the moralized experience. Globally the number of cancer deaths is expected to grow from 12 million new cases and 7 million deaths from cancer in 2008 to a projected 26 million new cases and. 72% of cancer deaths occurred in low and middle income countries in 2007, where the leading causes of cancer morality are lung, stomach, liver, colon and rectum, and cervix. Age population the average age of the population is getting older: a global problem, a global rise in cancer. Cancer is the leading causes of death in all provinces for the first time: statscan. 1983-2012 the raw incidence rates are raising.
