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• e United States has recently experienced increased incidence of and mortality from renal cancers. According to Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER), a national cancer- monitoring program, the last twenty-five years have witnessed dramatic increases in disease and death from kidney cancer among black and white Americans of both sexes. During the last twenty years, all white men saw increased incidence at 3.1 percent per year; white women at 3.9 percent; and African-American men and women the steepest rate at 3.9 percent and 4.3 percent. Such increases over a twenty-year period cannot be explained by early detection, especially given that screening tests are not routinely employed. • Testicular cancer is another malignancy rising in occurrence for the last several decades in virtually all developed nations. e nation's oldest ongoing statewide tumor registry finds a mean annual increase in testicular cancer incidence of more than 5.5 percent over the last sixty years. New studies are showing that a mother's exposure to pollutants may contribute to testicular cancer in her sons' years later. • Age-adjusted incidence of breast cancer in industrialized countries has increased 1 to 2 percent per year for several decades, both before and aer introduction of mammography. • Prostate cancer is up nearly 290 percent in the last fiy years. • yroid cancer is up 258 percent • Cases of skin melanomas are up almost 700 percent in the last fiy years. • Lung Cancer is currently the most common cause of cancer death in women, with the death rate more than two times what it was twenty-five years ago. In the last fiy years, incidence of age-adjusted cancer increased roughly 85 percent in the United States. Because this figure is adjusted for age, a person living longer has nothing to do with this increase. e most affected part of the population is children, who represent the fastest=growing sector of people with unprecedented high rates of cancer. Every year approximately eight thousand children under age fieen are diagnosed with malignant disease, most frequently leukemia and brain tumors. Environmental exposure such as ionizing radiation, hormones, and antineoplastic agents are accepted to be contributors to these diseases. At this writing it is estimated that the number of new cases of cancer will globally climb to almost 17 million in 2020 from just under 13 million today – a 30 percent increase! Cancers of the prostate and breast will be the most frequently diagnosed cancers in men and women, respectively, followed by lung and colorectal cancers both in men and in women. Overall, the most common cancers – skin, lungs, breasts, kidneys, colorectal and prostate – are organs of excretion. It's possible that toxin accumulation for purpose of excretion may be a clue as to the connection between toxins and excretory organs. Abby's Magazine - Volume 4 Issue 1 | Page 27