Was fighting against cancer successful?

According to Nation-wide statistics although some types of cancer can be seen less recently but the frequency of some others is still growing.

Skin cancer both in men and women and also the prostate cancer is increasing whereas breast cancer have become less frequent. Lung, stomach and colon cancers have become less frequent in both sexes.

What are the effective factors? There are a lot of effective factor that can explain these changes. Risk factors like sun ray and smoking and also the new methods for diagnosing and screening of cancer can be among the most important factors. Also people have become aware of the hazards of some carcinogens like sun ray, smoking, some chemical material like zonolite and … .

For example zonolite that was used to used in wide rang in building, is not used now and this has caused a significant decrease in the frequency of lung cancer.

On the other hand, the higher level of hygiene and health care in most communities, has decreased the incidence of cancer.

In general the, in comparison to 15 years ago, most cancer have become less frequent.