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Canada's aging baby boomers and the country's growing population are propelling Canada into a cancer crisis, according to Canadian Cancer Statistics 2005 released today by the Canadian Cancer Society.
"The number of new cancer cases in Canada is growing twice as fast as the population is growing," says Heather Logan, Director, Cancer Control Policy, Canadian Cancer Society. "Cancer is already straining our healthcare system and it's going to get worse as the number of new cancer cases increases as the baby boom generation ages."
From 2000 to 2004, the population grew about one per cent annually while the number of cancer cases grew by about two per cent per year. Logan adds that if current trends continue with the growing and aging population, it is expected that 5.7 million Canadians will develop cancer and 2.7 million people will die of the disease over the next 30 years.
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