Interestingly enough, cancer rates have skyrocketed after the tragic 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which still continues to spew radiation into the ocean and atmosphere to this day.
Jen Savedge reported, “Cancer rates are on the rise around the world, according to new data released by the World Health Organization, with dramatic increases in developing countries still new to a disease driven by Western lifestyles.
In a new report compiled by WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, new cancer diagnoses increased from 12.7 in a previous survey in 2008 to 14 million in 2012. Cancer deaths rose 8 percent from 7.6 million in 2008 to 8.2 million in 2012.
According to the report, cancer rates and deaths have begun skyrocketing in the developing world, and experts think the introduction of foods and lifestyle habits from industrialized nations might be the culprit. Lung cancer, which is caused by smoking, made up about 13 percent of all cancer cases, making it the most common cancer globally. The WHO report also noted a “sharp rise” in cases of breast cancer, with the disease taking the lives of 522,000 women last year, an increase of 14 percent from 2008. Breast cancer is now the most common cancer in women in 140 countries.”
