Cancer Beijing's Top Killer for Seventh Consecutive Year; Healthy Life Expectancy 58 Years

Sobering statistics from the Beijing Health and Family Planning Commission indicate that cancer was responsible for 27 percent of all deaths in Beijing in 2013, increasing from 63 new cancer diagnoses per day ten years ago to 110 per day in 2013, its report said.

Lung cancer, colorectal cancer, and liver cancer were cited as the leading killers of men. For women, breast cancer, lung cancer, and then colorectal were the leading types of cancer fatalities.

The report also said that thyroid cancer is on the rise, having quadrupled over the past ten years, but for no apparent reason, the report said.

The commission also employed the World Health Organization's "health-adjusted life expectancy" measure and estimated that age as 58 for Beijingers. Beijing women fared most poorly, with an estimated life expectancy of 84, but a health-adjusted life expectancy of just over 56. Beijing still claims to have slightly greater longevity than people in the US.

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