Cancer is one of the most prevailing disorders at present, and have been so over the last decades. The disease, according to a number of medical experts, is actually a case-to-case basis disorder. How cancer cells spread and affect the body, including the severity, always varies per individual. No cancer is the same throughout.
The symptoms of a certain kind of cancer are generalized for all its patients. However, even though cancer cells are treated with a similar procedure it does not guarantee the same speed and form of healing. On the other hand, scientists have discovered interesting trends on how cancer spread over a general population. They have discovered that factors such as ethnicity, birthplace, age, and the like can become key factors in determining one's risks to the disease.
For instance, Our Weekly has reported that African-born Black Americans experience different cancer rates as those US-born Black Americans. Studies have discovered that individuals who are born in Africa are at higher risks of infection-related and blood-related cancers.
This information has been supported by a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicating that African-American men have the highest rate of cancer risks compared to other genders and ethnicities. Those with the lowest risks of cancer are American Indians and Hispanics, also based on the report.
As of now, scientists are still in the process of determining trends on incidences of cancer among ethnic groups and age. For the reasons behind why the trend has resulted to how it did, scientists are still trying to figure out underlying causes.
These kinds of trends and information are helpful in cancer-risk prevention and programs that are related to treatment and risk-reduction among individuals not only in the US but all over the world. It is an important tool to identifying who is at high risks to create specialized programs fit for these sets of individuals.
