Health Disparity | Cancer Assignment

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Contents
Health disparity................................................................................................................................2
Population affected due to cancer....................................................................................................3
Specific program, community service.............................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

Healthcare 2
Health disparity
Cancer is a group of diseases that consists of abnormal cell growth with the potential to spread
across the different parts of the body. In the research, this has been found that there are particular
groups who are affected by the disease of cancer (Siegel, Miller, Fedewa, Ahnen, Meester, Barzi
& Jemal, 2017).
Cancer mortality is even higher among the men than women that are 19.68 per 100,000 men and
139.6 per 100,000 women.
In year 2018, there was a prediction of 1,735,350 new incidences/cases of cancer that are
diagnosed in US market and 609,640 that persons will die from illness. It has been found that the
population who is specifically affected includes men, women, and children. On the other hand,
this has been found that a death rate of cancer has been decline rapidly.
According to the review report of SEER in April 2018, cancer death rates decline by
 1.8% per year among the males from the year 2006 to 2015.
 1.4% per year among females from the year 2006 to 2015.
 1.4% per year among kids with the ages of 0-19 from the year 2011 to 2015.
Further, this is the fact that cancer is considered as second major common reason of the decease
that has been found among the children with the age group of 1 to 14 years in the US which is all
after the accidents. It has been found those cancer incidence rates are improved in the children as
well as the adolescents by 0.7% since the year 1975.
The prediction for 1,762,450 cancers was diagnosed in the year 2019, which majorly equals over
than 4,800 novel cases on a regular basis. In addition, the probability of life of being identified
with cancer that is 39.3% for males and 37.7% for the females that is very little over than 1 in 3
which shows prevalence rates (Siegel, Miller & Jemal, 2019).
There is 22% of the deaths in US in 2016 that were from cancer and also making it considered
leading additional reason of decease are the fact that heart disease in both women as well as men.
US data 2004 -2008 shows that global age-adjusted occurrence of cancer was about 460 per