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Methinks lots of folks have said the magic word that upsets a couple of billionaire Clans in NB and got our last Chief Medical Officer of Health fired N'esy Pas?
https://davidraymondamos3.blogspot.com/2020/01/new-brunswick-leads-country-in-breast.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cancer-rate-breast-lung-new-brunswick-canada-1.5444697
New Brunswick leads country in breast, lung cancer rates
Province has 2nd highest rate of new cancer cases overall, but drops to 7th when age is factored in
· CBC News · Posted: Jan 30, 2020 6:05 AM AT
Breast cancer survivor Kathy Kaufield said the province's high rate doesn't surprise her. When she had her lumpectomy in Saint John, the surgeon performed five other breast cancer surgeries the same day. (Mike Heenan/CBC)
New Brunswick has the highest rates of newly diagnosed breast cancer and lung cancer cases in the country, and the second-highest rate of new cancer cases overall, according to new figures from Statistics Canada.
The province's breast cancer rate was 80.9 per 100,000 in 2017, with 620 new cases diagnosed, the data released Wednesday show.
By comparison, the national rate, excluding Quebec, was 68.4.
And while the national rate decreased from the previous year, New Brunswick's breast cancer rate grew steadily three years in a row, up from 71.1 in 2013.
"It's upsetting," said breast cancer survivor Kathy Kaufield of Quispamsis. "It's not a statistic that New Brunswick should be proud of."
Nova Scotia was a close second at 102.1 per 100,000, with 970 new cases.
Across Canada, the incidence rate was 64.5.
New Brunswick's total rate for the 58 types of cancers tracked was 631.9 per 100,000, (4,845 cases), with Nova Scotia virtually tied at 631.8, (6,006 cases).
Only Newfoundland and Labrador ranked worse at 670, (3,540 cases).
The national rate was 529.1.
Aging population affects numbers
New Brunswick's growing cancer numbers appear worse than they are because the majority of cancer cases are diagnosed in people over the age of 50, and the proportion of the province's population in that age group has been growing rapidly in recent years, forcing the numbers up.
According to Statistics Canada, adjusting for age differences in New Brunswick's population between 2011 and 2017, cancer rates in each age group in the province have been falling, but the total number of cases are rising as more and more people enter the prime years for contracting the disease.
For example, breast cancer is five times more prevalent in women in their 60s than women in their 30s and New Brunswick has more 60-year-olds and fewer 30-year-olds than it did 10 years ago. The sheer number of women entering that age group is pushing overall totals up.
When the age of the population is factored in, New Brunswick drops from second place overall to seventh place, and a rate much closer to the national average — 500.5 per 100,000, compared to 495.9.
Even accounting for the age issue, New Brunswick still ranks high for breast and lung cancers, in second and third place respectively.
Renews call for breast density info
Kaufield says figuring out why so many women in New Brunswick are getting breast cancer should be a research priority.In the meantime, she's waiting for the provincial government to follow through on a 2018 election pledge to provide women with their breast density information after mammograms so those with dense breasts can seek additional, more effective screening.
Dense breast tissue can obscure cancer in a mammogram image. (Submitted by Dense Breasts Canada)
A Department of Health official has previously said the goal is to implement a standardized approach to reporting of breast density in 2020. No specific timeline has been provided.
"The sooner the better as far as I'm concerned, especially when you see numbers like this," said Kaufield.
"The least we could do — if we can't find out why it's so high in New Brunswick — is give women every opportunity to find it as early as they can."
Dr. Mahmoud Abdelsalam, chief of oncology at the Moncton Hospital, said there is evidence that healthy lifestyle choices, such as not smoking, eating more vegetables and fruit and less red meat, and exercising, can reduce the incidence of cancer by 30 per cent. (Horizon Health Network)
Dr. Mahmoud Abdelsalam, the chief of oncology at the Moncton Hospital, believes the province's aging population is one of the factors behind the high cancer rates.
He points to a recent report released by the Canadian Cancer Society, which showed 79 per cent of cancer cases occurred between the ages of 50 and 84.
"We have many of the young generation, they move outside New Brunswick looking for jobs. And we have more retired people coming back at that age."
Add lung screening
Smoking could be another factor, said Abdelsalam. Globally, the incidence of lung cancers not related to smoking usually ranges between 15 and 20 per cent, but in New Brunswick, that figure is only about eight to 10 per cent, he said.
"So that gives the impression that most of the lung cancer in our province [is] related more to smoking."
But to understand the numbers, more analysis of the province's population is required, said Abdelsalam.
"We need to look at what are the higher risks in our province — could be the age, could be smoking incidence, could be the style of life, could be environmental factors, could be something else like genetics that we didn't check. So that needs more epidemiological studies."
Abdelsalam said he'd like to see the province add more screening programs, citing lung cancer as an example. Diagnosing early improves survival rates, he said.
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David Amos
Methinks lots of folks have said the magic word that upsets a couple of billionaire Clans in NB and got our last Chief Medical Officer of Health fired N'esy Pas?
David Amos
More glyphosate anyone?
Mack Leigh
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Well here is to us !!!! The poorest province in Canada and also the sickest.. Things to be really , really proud of .. Our Liberal and Conservative governments are doing a bang-up job for the people of NB... Just continue the spraying of poisonous chemicals and pandering to one minority only and all will be well...
Well here is to us !!!! The poorest province in Canada and also the sickest.. Things to be really , really proud of .. Our Liberal and Conservative governments are doing a bang-up job for the people of NB... Just continue the spraying of poisonous chemicals and pandering to one minority only and all will be well...
David Amos
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Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Methinks many a true word is said in jest N'esy Pas?
Alex Butt
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Pretty sad how New Brunswick only leads or comes in first in all the bad or negative things such as hospital wait times, lack of healthcare, garbage roads and infrasture etc and last on the good things...
David Amos
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Reply to @Alex Butt: YUP
Buddy Best
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The major industrial entity in this province cares no more for the people in here then the saplings it kills with it's poison. They have proven it time and time again. They know they kill!!
The major industrial entity in this province cares no more for the people in here then the saplings it kills with it's poison. They have proven it time and time again. They know they kill!!
Ben Hague
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Reply to @Buddy Best: Who are they ?
Reply to @Buddy Best: Who are they ?
David Amos
Content disabled Reply to @Ben Hague: Methinks you are having fun playing dumb N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Methinks lots of folks have said the magic word that upsets a couple of billionaire Clans in NB and got our last Chief Medical Officer of Health fired N'esy Pas?
Trevis L. Kingston
NB and all the Maritime provinces are located at the "Weather Tailpipe" of much of the
industrial installations of Eastern North America.
Pollutants are gathered from a wide area of especially the US and prevailing winds funnel
them over our heads on an almost daily routine. As well, Snow and Rain drop them onto
our farm-food lands and into our air and water supplies.
Have any credible studies been undertaken to assess the effects of this on our citizens?
Buddy Best
Reply to @Trevis L.
Kingston: These cancer causing agents are locally produced! Anyone
claiming otherwise is grossly misleading. The evidence is all around us.
David Amos
Reply to @Buddy Best: YUP
Paul Bourgoin
New
Brunswick leads country in breast, lung cancer rates, Understandable
the lack of human protection within our environment and industry being
able to hide their abuse of our environment is clear. We bury the the
consequences of industrial abuse!
David Amos
Reply to @Paul Bourgoin: YUP
Buddy Best
It can't happen to you until it does. Polluting our air, water and soil is the way they do business. It doesn't kill like a bolt of lightning. It takes years or decades to have its impact. After living and working here for 60 years all I wanted to do was to retire to Play some golf in summer and travel in Winter. Can't do either because my lungs are shot.
Ben Hague
Reply to @Buddy Best: Who are (they) ?
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Hague: Methinks he is referring to the "Powers That Be" in NB N'esy Pas?
Paul
Bourgoin
There
are people, Professionals who lost their jobs for telling the truth
about our forestry practices. NB hired a Fraud to be our leading
Professional in the planning of our forest management. He received
Canada's highest honor only to find out he was an impostor and his
competence was a deception. New Brunswick is still at the starting line
as to how to manage a forest with wildlife without affecting human
lives.
Ben Hague
Reply to @Paul
Bourgoin: Who was the fraud that that received ( Canada's highest honor
)? What is (Canada's highest honor)? Curious !
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Hague: Methinks I should ask which Clan you work for? I bet its the McCains or the Irvings or both N'esy Pas?
Ben Haroldson
Time to join glyphosate class action.
John Holmes
I'd like to see a map of the distribution of cases of cancer. I'd wager they're higher in St. John and the area surrounding the refinery. This has already been demonstrated around other oil refineries. Second to that, I'd also like to see a map of the distribution in province, as I suspect it would also coincide with the spraying of Glyphosate.
Cancer rates are increasing around the world, with notable spikes in industrialised nations - it doesn't take a medical degree to figure out the reasons for that.
Sure, lifestyle choices can have an impact, no question about that, but ignoring the elephant in the province does no one any good and only perpetuates the travesty that's going on here.
Joseph Vacher
Stop Spraying poison (Glysophate) everywhere!
Fred Waite
David Amos
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: BTW I was saying nope to your query about a coincidence
Ben Haroldson
Time to join glyphosate class action.
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Haroldson: NOPE Sue individually
John Holmes
I'd like to see a map of the distribution of cases of cancer. I'd wager they're higher in St. John and the area surrounding the refinery. This has already been demonstrated around other oil refineries. Second to that, I'd also like to see a map of the distribution in province, as I suspect it would also coincide with the spraying of Glyphosate.
Cancer rates are increasing around the world, with notable spikes in industrialised nations - it doesn't take a medical degree to figure out the reasons for that.
Sure, lifestyle choices can have an impact, no question about that, but ignoring the elephant in the province does no one any good and only perpetuates the travesty that's going on here.
Tom Simmons
Reply to @John Holmes: You'll never get that information, that is only for the gate keepers.
David Amos
Reply to @Tom Simmons: True
Joseph Vacher
Stop Spraying poison (Glysophate) everywhere!
Fred Waite
Reply to @Joseph
Vacher: I have been in the woods all my life and have never seen so few
animals. I go on my fathers land which is not cut (100 acre old growth
forest) but boarders on land being sprayed. There are very few tracks
not even rabbits, which are animals that don't range very far, where did
they go? Why did we pay off our Dr. Eilish Cleary? Why do we vote if
big business is going to tell the government what it is going to do?
Buddy Best
Reply to @Fred Waite: We are the expendables. Nothing will come of this. Civic Elections soon. Irving rules!!!
Joseph Vacher
Reply to @Fred Waite:
I was diagnosed with a very rare form of Cancer at 29 years old. Also
the only person in 3 generations on either side of my family to get any
form of cancer. The person down the road from me has the same kind of
cancer...... coincidence?
Joseph Batt
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: check radon levels at your house
David Amos
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: NOPE
Reply to @Joseph Vacher: BTW I was saying nope to your query about a coincidence
Murray Brown
There
is no mystery. If you take a trip from Nova Scotia, travel through New
Brunswick and then on down the Eastern seaboard to Baltimore, you will
notice that there are refineries (starting in Nova Scotia and NB) and
industrial plants polluting the air during the whole trip... The natural
path of that air is through the Maritimes and Newfoundland and then out
to sea..
Ben Hague
Reply to @Murray Brown: In order to see the refinery in NS where abouts did you begin your trip?
David Amos
Reply to @Ben Hague:
Methinks he likely saw it at about 30 thousand feet over NS after
leaving Halifax heading for wherever on a jet airliner N'esy Pas?
Doug McBride
I
live in NB and LOVE my province but there is a fallacy that because of
all the forest and the beautiful sea air, we have beautiful perfectly
clean air. It is..... until the potato crops and the forests are sprayed
with chemicals that have been proven to cause cancer. No chemical use
far fewer cancer cases!
David Amos
Reply to @Doug McBride: I concur
Tom
Simmons
Glyphosate?
Buddy Best
Reply to @Tom Simmons: and the Irving Empire's empathy for life in general. They have none!!!!!!
Joseph
Batt
Reply to @Tom Simmons: Radon Gas, Smoking and Second hand smoke are lung cancer root causes.
Buddy Best
Reply to @Joseph
Batt: Yeah right!!!!??? The only way to developed lung cancer is to
smoke or have radon in your work or living areas. NEWS FLASH!!!!! It
ain't.
Tom
Simmons
Reply to @Joseph
Batt: We can't know until they get ride of Glyphosate spray, many class
action lawsuits against Round Up, main ingredient Glyphosate.
David Amos
Reply to @Tom
Simmons: Glyphosate? Methinks thats the breakfast beverage that
billionaires love to serve upon the rest of us N'sy Pas?
Joseph Batt
Reply to @Tom Simmons: https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/mecdc/environmental-health/rad/radon/documents/2019tipsheet14.pdf
David Amos
Reply to @Joseph Batt: https://www.scribd.com/doc/2718120/integrity-yea-right
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