Irlanda secondo in UE in nuove diagnosi di cancro – Rapporto
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/0217/1497310-eu-cancer-report/
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Irlanda secondo in UE in nuove diagnosi di cancro – Rapporto
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/0217/1497310-eu-cancer-report/
di Dry-Comfortable-9696
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Is it just me or is that article very poorly written and confusing?
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There was something posted here a few weeks ago about obesity in Ireland compared to the rest of Europe.
We are rather fat as a nation now, which we know tends to result in poor health outcomes. Mad to say it but walk down any street in Ireland now and half the people are very overweight.
A lot of the rates are higher due to skin cancer, a large % of the population are extremely unable to deal with sunlight and should probably just stay out of it as well as using SPF. Most of us just aren’t able to deal with the sun at all and shouldn’t keep trying to.
Then you’ve a lot of people who’ve just got very a bad diet – we’re also one of the most obese countries in the EU. Links to bowel caner rates etc. It’s improving but you’re talking about older generations too.
The lung cancer one is likely mostly the legacy of smoking. The rates were high. I think we’ve also got quite bad urban air quality in a lot of places, particularly in winter due to open fires – smoke levels are appalling in some places e.g. Cork City on a still night in winter, yet it’s one of the great undiscussables in Ireland as we love a big open fire and will have nothing bad said about it, even though it’s often like a Victorian novel in some of the cities and towns.
Aging makes sense only in the context of that Ireland’s getting older, but it’s still one of the youngest demographics in Europe, so on an EU comparison that makes no sense. Our rates are just high.