Cancer Surpasses Heart Disease As No. 1 Killer In 22 States? January 10, 2016

I am extremely curious about these findings and hope that one of you may feel motivated
to at least look at this enough to form your own questions for research.

Look at the 22 states where cancer surpasses heart disease. (marked in yellow.  Kansas and Alaska
have a yellow mark but are not colored in)  Why these states?  Look how many are adjacent or connected.  Especially Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana.  But look at the California, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado Nebraska and Kansas connection.

Explain why Nevada, Utah, Wyoming North and South Dakota still have heart disease
as the number one killer.  When I got this map colored, I was surprised at the patches on
the east coast.  Again note several states that all touch, cancer surpasses heart disease.

For some reason I feel optimistic that this information may lead to a cure or explanation
of a cause of cancer.  In case any of you are interested; it could simply be medical care
of both heart problems and speed of cancer diagnosis.  It could also be population as
some states have more minorities than others, and some races have higher cases
of cancer than others.  It could be climate, weather, pollution, population density.

The first study could look at pollution.  Perhaps poor air quality is harder on the heart
than good quality air.

Daddy thinks it could be connected to the states that participated in Obamacare, which
Utah has not yet done.  Note this data is 2 years old, but the Obamacare health insurance
could still be a factor.

Jacob said the leading cancers are a factor.  Skin cancer is increasing, but look at the
states surrounding Florida, who still have more heart disease than cancer.  And Washington
state where the sun shines only 5 days a year has more cancer.  Also smoking rates could
be a factor as smoking significantly increases cancer rates.

Inquisitr.com

According to a new set of statistics, cancer is surpassing heart disease as the number one killer of people in 22 states. That might lead some to believe that the statistics point to a rise in the number of cancer cases, but the actual reason for the switch is that the number of heart disease deaths is on the decline.

Across the United States, heart disease is still the national leader in causes of death, (with cancer being a close second), though death rates for both types of disease have been steadily falling for the past two and a half decades. The new numbers, however, indicate that national rates of heart disease are falling at a steeper level than that of cancer. When the focus is put on particular groups, cancer is the outright number one killer among Hispanics, Asians and adults between the ages of 40 and 79.

Cancer is now the number one killer in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Although cancer has become the number one killer in each of those states, cancer mortality rates have dropped over 23 percent since a peak recorded in 1991. Experts attribute the drop in cancer deaths to a major decline in cigarette smoking, as well as advanced cancer detection techniques and cancer treatment advances. Looking at the rates of heart disease in the same time period, heart disease mortality has dropped more than 46 percent.

The cancer society predicts there will be nearly 1.7 million new cancer cases this year, and nearly 600,000 deaths.

Mortality data from diseases like heart disease and cancer are released between 2 and 4 years behind the current date because it takes so long to amass the data, compile it, treat it for quality control and final dissemination.