Cancer Mortality Rates Comparison - US - Sri Lanka - China

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Cancer Mortality Rates Comparison
US - Sri Lanka - China - Japan

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The cancer mortality rates for the Western Nations are generally very close to those of the US. This leaves the dramatically lower cancer mortality rates of the countries shown here. These dramatically lower cancer rates point directly at the causes of the much higher cancer rates in the Western world. The facts are all here.

Cancer Mortality Rates Comparison US - Sri Lanka - China - Japan
per 100.000	US		Sri Lanka		China		Japan
TYPE	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Total	220.7	190.3	29.3	26.1	128.5	81.6	273.0	169.9
oral*	4.1	2.0	3.1	1.4	-	-	5.4	2.0
esophagus	6.4	2.0	1.2	1.2	21.9	13.4	13.3	2.3
stomach	6.3	4.2	2.7	3.4	26.2	15.1	52.6	27.5
colon	18.7	18.7	0.0	0.1	5.6	5.3	18.2	16.5
rectum*	3.5	2.9	0.3	0.2	~	~	11.8	6.7
liver	2.6	1.0	0.1	0.0	33.2	13.6	35.6	13.5
larynx	2.5	0.6	0.2	0.1	-	-	1.6	0.1
lung*	72.3	43.2	2.0	0.4	21.8	9.6	58.3	20.9
prostate	27.5	-	0.2	-	-	-	10.2	-
bladder	5.9	2.8	0.2	0.1	1.6	0.6	4.7	2.0
other	48.8	53.6	16.5	14.3	-	-	46.3	46.2
leukemia	8.5	6.6	2.3	1.8	3.5	3.3	6.00	4.2
lymph*	13.6	12.1	0.6	0.3	-	-	9.0	7.0
breast	-	32.7	-	1.6	-	3.5	-	13.2
cervix*	-	3.5	-	0.4	-	4.2	-	3.5
uterus*	-	4.6	-	0.8	-	-	-	4.3

*oral - including lip and pharynx
*rectum- including anus and rectosigmoid junction
*lung - including trachea and bronchus
*lymph - including hematopoietic tissues

Note: Canadian cancer mortality is a little lower than US cancer mortality in most cases
i.e. 213.7 total male; 177.2 total female

Source: World Health Statistics Annual (1996); WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION - WHO
Source: Vital Statistics of Japan, Statistics and Information Department, Ministry of Health and Welfare

Notes:The cancer mortality statistics for China are those of rural China; Hong Kong cancer mortality rates are slightly higher.

Where no figures are given does not necessarily mean that there are no cancers; in most cases the numbers are so small though that they have been included under other headings - such as "other".

The ~ sign means that these numbers have been included in the directly above figure.

Comments: The following are my admittedly non-expert opinions.

Because of the massive population base - well over two billion people - and because of the widely divergent ethnicity of the people in this comparison, and the lack of any close homogeneity within the various populations, we can rule out genetic factors. There are just far too many genetic differences in this massive segment of the human population.

This is underscored by the fact that Far East people acquire the same cancer rate of the Western nations after emigrating to the Western nations.

Since cancer mortality rates are slightly higher in the urban centres in all cases, and since the typical diets of rural and urban populations within each country are generally identical, this points towards two causative factors; the quality of nutrition, and environmental contaminants.

Since the difference in the cancer rate between rural and urban populations is very small, environmental factors appear to play a only small role. This leaves the quality of the food of these populations as the chief and major cause of the huge differences in cancer mortality rates.

Since the greatest difference between Western and Far Eastern food production consists of our chemical, and their traditional farming methods, and since the traditional farming methods preserve the full spectrum of the 72+ trace elements in their nutrition, this, in my view, is the most obvious cause of the huge differences in cancer mortality rates.

Along the same lines, the higher cancer rate among the Japanese than among the Sinhalese can almost certainly be attributed to the adoption of Western chemical farming methods in large-scale farming operations in Japan - as opposed to the large remaining segment of traditional 'cottage' farming - and the greater prevalence of chemically grown food in the urban centers. Imported trace element-deficient grain from the Western nations is no doubt another factor.

Of extreme interest is the fact that males exhibit higher cancer rates in most instances, and often dramatically so. The massively higher stomach, liver and lung cancer rates of Japanese males than those of Japanese females are particularly instructive. Since both gender live in the same environment, environmental factors are ruled out. This leaves a marked difference in eating and drinking habits among the two genders. Smoking comes to mind as a prime suspect in the case of lung cancer, followed by the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the case of liver cancer, since males usually smoke and drink more than females.

This is underscored by the fact that Japanese health statistics show that mortality rates from stomach cancer are 70 percent lower than the national average among residents of Shizuoka Prefecture, where large quantities of green tea are consumed. Those in the Kawane district, one of the country's largest tea-producing regions, have amazingly low stomach cancer mortality rates - 70-80 percent lower than the Japanese average. And while the focus is on green tea here, it is most likely that the soil and water of this region contain - like the island of Okinawa, another remarkably healthy region - high levels of the complete natural range of the 72+ trace elements.

The extremely high stomach cancer rate among Japanese males, and the relatively high stomach cancer rate among Japanese women also points directly towards some nutritional factor. Although substantially lower, this is underscored by the also relatively high stomach cancer rate among the Chinese. Something which is common in the nutrition of both cultures - and absent in the typical Sinhalese diet, as well as in the typical Western diet - is giving the Japanese and Chinese cultures far higher stomach cancer rates than those in the Western nations, and males more so than females. A prime suspect, in my view, and due to the general absence of refrigeration in the rural areas of these countries, may well be the consumption of much smoked or barbecued meat.

[ADDENDUM - May, 2010] The China Study by Cornell University found high localization in certain areas in China of extremely high rates of stomach cancer, sometimes over 50%. These horrific rates warp the stomach cancer rates for the whole country upward. The Cornell observers found these high rates corresponded to unusually high local consumption of very high-salt foods and fermented foods. Most Chinese do use some soy sauce and eat some fermented foods, but in small amounts, not as the main dishes.[contributed by Jim Redman].

Altogether, these huge differences of the cancer rates among these nations, and the often very large difference in cancer rates between males and females within these countries provide a beautiful and very accurate 'road map' towards the cause of these cancers. And, given these figures, it should be quite easy to establish these causes. In my view, it will be almost as quick and easy as a computer database match, from a database which includes the components, their amounts, and the trace elements count of the typical diet of these nations on the one hand, and their various cancer mortality rates on the other. Bingo - and in about 2 minutes.

Finally, since the typical Sinhalese diet is almost identical to the typical Indian diet - as well as their agricultural methods of growing their food - I expect the Indian cancer mortality rate to be very similar to the Sinhalese cancer mortality rate. This would not only add the evidence of another immense population to these conclusions, a population which would then include almost 1/2 of humankind, but it would further narrow down and sharply focus the search area for the causes of these cancers.

[Sri Lanka has a public health care system and extensive health statistics, whereas India has no public health care system and collects health statistics only in Mumbai, Delhi and Singapore. The Indian authorities are, however, well aware that the incidence of cancer is dramatically lower in rural areas. In the context of these thoughts, this difference would be well explained by the fact that consumption of trace element deficient food, grown according to Western chemical agricultural methods, is far higher in India's cities than it is in the countryside].

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Cancer Mortality Rates Comparison US - Sri Lanka - China - Japan

Cancer Mortality Rates Comparison
US - Sri Lanka - China - Japan