Source: Xinhua

05-06-2009 14:22

HOUSTON, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The number of new cancer cases in the United States will rise 45 percent by the year 2030, as a result of an aging and more diverse population, according to a latest study by U.S. scientists.

The study, conducted by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, predicts that the number of new cancer cases in the United States will surge to 2.3 million in 2030 from 1.6 million in 2010.

Cancer cases among minorities will double and among seniors will rise 67 percent, the study said.

Among racial or ethnic groups, Hispanics will see the largest rise, with 142 percent more cases. The increase will be 64 percent in blacks, 76 percent in American Indians and Native Alaskans, 101percent in multiracial people and 132 percent in Asian-Pacific Islanders.

The study is the first to project specific long-term cancer incidence, which was expected to increase as U.S. baby boomers reach their senior years because cancer is a disease of aging, according to newspaper Houston Chronicle.

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