War On Cancer, Will We Win?

War On Cancer, Will We Win?

Every day is another person lost his battle with cancer. In more than thirty years we've seen to overcome less destructive treatment of diseases that could be avoided. This is not just will power that can be lost, but the overall decline had occurred in the last few years relating to this progress.

Earlier in 2009, Barack Obama promised to "launch a new effort to conquer a disease that has touched the life of nearly every American." This would extend the "war on cancer", first declared by Richard Nixon in 1971, the National Cancer Act.

However, there are differences in the incidence of cancer. Associated with mortality and survival in relation to race / ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Unfortunately, residents of poorer counties had higher death rates from cancer than people in wealthier counties. Why is that? To put it simply, poor people are facing multiple barriers to obtaining and using health insurance often will not seek help if they can not afford.

However, there are differences in the incidence of cancer. Associated with mortality and survival in relation to race / ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Unfortunately, residents of poorer counties had higher death rates from cancer than people in wealthier counties. Why is that? To put it simply, poor people are facing multiple barriers to obtaining and using health insurance often will not seek help if they can not afford.

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"Typically, the cost to treat a patient's health benefits coverage. Without health benefits self-salary costs can be significant," Graham stated.

These people have no access to health care are more likely to go undiagnosed and die of cancer than others who have easy access to health care. It is not only poor people who suffer from the affects of this disease. Even accounting rates of poverty, some racial groups like African Americans, American Indians / Alaska Natives have a lower five-year survival rate than non-Hispanic whites.

Last year my mother was diagnosed with leukemia. I am fortunate to be able to have family health care to those with health benefits, we should, but what if we did not have to? It will be free of cancer as it is now, and only a year later with the first stage of detection of the disease.

According to SEER data, which stands for the surveillance, epidemiology and end results, poorer counties have the lowest survival rates.

is the fact that the cancer education can often be irrelevant, and outreach efforts are insensitive to many poor ljude.Fatalizam cancer prevalent among the poor and prevents them from getting quality health care.

All these factors lead to social inequalities in cancer. Apart from poverty and culture, social injustice, such as racism are critical factors in creating and maintaining razlike.Povijest one racial group may determine the socio-economic status of the group. It was found that African Americans are less likely to receive standard treatments for cancer, even with the same insurance and economic status. This is what I do not understand. There is no reason to deny someone else the same treatment because of socioeconomic status.

We know that there is a lot of disconnect between what we reveal and what is delivered to all Americans in the form of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. It excludes all parts of these differences all of which can be prevented.

What is needed in order to offer immediate coverage that is under-insured for the diagnosis of cancer, so that no person will go untreated or undiagnosed for that matter. In areas of cancer is very common, we should be focused on providing relevant education and the people and gives them the quality and simple access to health care. Systems that monitor the treatment by the standards of protection should be established and free from bias in health care. Every individual, regardless of his or her status, should be responsible for promoting their own health.

research should be supported to determine the economic cost of cancer. We need to measure the cost of cancer treatment for the people and inform the public about these aspects of health economics.

Last but not least, we must tear down the economic, cultural and social barriers to early detection and treatment of cancer.

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