Why is cancer the second leading cause of death if it is only killing 500/100,000 people annully?!
Question: Why is cancer the second leading cause of death if it is only killing 500/100,000 people annully.?
That figure calculates to less than 1% of our population... Intuition tells me the number should be way higher like 25% of our population... if it is the second killer in America. Health Question & Answer
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you must be kidding me...
do u have any idea what would happen if 25% of the population died every year. looks like you don't have a background in population ecology.
the composition of a population is very dynamic. population itself is mostly dynamic over a long period of time. however there are very minute changes in populations over a short period of time. so, it you look at population statics year by year, the population would seem very static and not much would happen from one year to another (unless there is an epidemic/pandemic/natural disaster/etc.)
therefore, the changes that happen every year are very subtle and not inconspicuous. they are extremely important but not noticeable.
now moving towards your question a little bit, according to USA census 2008, the population growth rate was 0.883%, birth rate was 14.18 births/1,000 population, death rate was 8.27 deaths/1,000 population , and net immigration was 2.92 migrant(s)/1,000 population. the number remain very stable every year.
looking at the number of deaths per 1000 people in the population in the data above, you can see that the actual number of people who die is very small. if you calculate, it turns out to be 0.827%. in 2005, there were 825.9 deaths per 100,000 population, which translates to 0.826%.
obviously, if only 0.827/6 % of the actual population dies per year, 25% of the population cannot be killed every year by cancer, can it.
now on to why cancer is the second leading cause of death if it only kills 500/100000 people annually, look at the following calculations.
lets just do this with US census of 2005 as it was the only complete one i could find.
the population of USA in 2005 was 305,186,613. out of these people, 559,312 people died of cancer, which turns out to be 183.27/100000. if we use this ratio of cancer deaths, and the death rate calculated above, the % death by cancer can be calculated as follows:
total number of deaths per 100000 = ((0.826/100)*100000) = 826/ 100000.
% deaths from cancer = (183.27/826)*100 = 22.2 %
i am not sure which country you are talking about but you can do the same thing with the census data of that country. (make sure the years are the same). if we use yr number for USA, the %death by cancer would be 60.5%.
the whole purpose of all that is that if 25% of the population died every year, the country would in big trouble.
cancer does not kill of 25% of the population.
it is the cause of about 25% of the total number of deaths
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do u have any idea what would happen if 25% of the population died every year. looks like you don't have a background in population ecology.
the composition of a population is very dynamic. population itself is mostly dynamic over a long period of time. however there are very minute changes in populations over a short period of time. so, it you look at population statics year by year, the population would seem very static and not much would happen from one year to another (unless there is an epidemic/pandemic/natural disaster/etc.)
therefore, the changes that happen every year are very subtle and not inconspicuous. they are extremely important but not noticeable.
now moving towards your question a little bit, according to USA census 2008, the population growth rate was 0.883%, birth rate was 14.18 births/1,000 population, death rate was 8.27 deaths/1,000 population , and net immigration was 2.92 migrant(s)/1,000 population. the number remain very stable every year.
looking at the number of deaths per 1000 people in the population in the data above, you can see that the actual number of people who die is very small. if you calculate, it turns out to be 0.827%. in 2005, there were 825.9 deaths per 100,000 population, which translates to 0.826%.
obviously, if only 0.827/6 % of the actual population dies per year, 25% of the population cannot be killed every year by cancer, can it.
now on to why cancer is the second leading cause of death if it only kills 500/100000 people annually, look at the following calculations.
lets just do this with US census of 2005 as it was the only complete one i could find.
the population of USA in 2005 was 305,186,613. out of these people, 559,312 people died of cancer, which turns out to be 183.27/100000. if we use this ratio of cancer deaths, and the death rate calculated above, the % death by cancer can be calculated as follows:
total number of deaths per 100000 = ((0.826/100)*100000) = 826/ 100000.
% deaths from cancer = (183.27/826)*100 = 22.2 %
i am not sure which country you are talking about but you can do the same thing with the census data of that country. (make sure the years are the same). if we use yr number for USA, the %death by cancer would be 60.5%.
the whole purpose of all that is that if 25% of the population died every year, the country would in big trouble.
cancer does not kill of 25% of the population.
it is the cause of about 25% of the total number of deaths
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You misunderstood that statistic. That statictic probrably refers to a certain type of cancer.
THere are many types. for instance.
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I agree with the earlier poster. You misunderstood the statistic.
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/ will give you statistics for cancer both incident rates and mortality. Health Question & Answer
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/ will give you statistics for cancer both incident rates and mortality. Health Question & Answer
Do some research.... e.g. for USA CDC data for 2005
2,448,017 deaths
652,091 from hearth diseases
559,312 from cancers
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2,448,017 deaths
652,091 from hearth diseases
559,312 from cancers
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I am a CCMA
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