Internal medicine consultant, Dr Wafaa Al-Hashash, confirmed the increase in cancer cases in recent years, particularly colorectal cancer, indicating that Kuwait has recorded 3,842 cases of the disease as of 2020, based on the statistical report of the World Health Organization. The data showed 1,719 deaths, while the number of infections for the past five years reached 10,885 cases.
According to Al-Hashash, cancer-related deaths around the world reached 10 million in 2020, and the World Health Organization expected the cases to reach 28.4 million by 2040. She explained that 1 out of every 5 people around the world will develop cancer during their lifetime; specifically 1 out of every 8 men and 1 out of every 11 women will die of the disease.
Al-Hashash also revealed new estimates which indicated that 1 in 4 women suffer from breast cancer globally, and that cancers of the colon, uterus, lung and thyroid are common among women. She confirmed that the most common cancer cases in both sexes are breast cancer, accounting for 21 percent of cases, followed by colorectal cancer with 11 percent, and then thyroid cancer with 7 percent. In addition, she pointed out that the most common cancer among men was colorectal cancer, with 14%, followed by prostate cancer with 13 percent, then lung cancer with 7 percent, noting that the most prevalent among women was breast cancer with 40 percent, then thyroid gland cancer by 11 percent, and colon cancer by 8 percent.
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