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Cancer in Delaware
Talking of descriptive epidemiology, a description of health problems analysis comes in. this description has positive addictive to researchers who want to establish the effects of a given health complication under review. This review equips the review with support information that is tailored in the provision of answers to the possible ways to control the disease.
Descriptive epidemiology presents the cause, a hypothesis of the cause, and the possibility of having a vaccine or possible cure for the disease. It has presented the repercussions the disease has on a victim. The cancer department of Delaware shows that the descriptions of epidemiology investigate all the information of the disease including the people affected, areas that are highly risked, and also the disease cycle. Areas of Kenton and Smyrna had the highest rates in research done between 2012 and 2016. The American cancer statistics center has estimated 6,660 new cancer cases in 2020 in Delaware, 2,130 deaths with incident rates at 498.4 per every 100,000 people.
These statistics show that Delaware is at a higher cancer risk than other states. Between 2001 and 2015, Delaware has women’s breast cancer rates at 125.6, the U.S at 129.1, Kent at 121.0, Sussex at 121.1, and New Castle at 128.1 (Siegel et al, 2015). This shows that Delaware is still at a higher risk because cancer is a disease that mostly shows at old age and it is very hard to treat. It subjects the patients to more restrictions that include less work, close medical examination over a short period.
The differences in cancer infections in the country are mostly brought up by the different living styles, age with the high rates of infection in Delaware being people over the age of 55 years. Drugs also such as tobacco taking have an upper hand in the cause of cancer, mostly the throat and lung cancer. Alcohol also leads to the growth of pancreatic cancer and other related infections.
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Siegel, R. L., Miller, K. D., & Jemal, A. (2015). Cancer statistics, 2015. CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 65(1), 5.