I doubt the Central African Republic has the same robust cancer detection resources as Australia
pereuse on
I would assume that in many countries a good few cases go unreported where there isn’t great access to medical services
LupusDeusMagnus on
No source map. Southern Brazil alone has like >200 per 100k cases.
luckypoint87 on
What’s going on in Australia? 🙁
Marshall_BraveStar on
Australia – sun
France – 1000 nuclear reactors
USA – their food
Desarth on
Is there a pattern here?
Few_Apricot_771 on
god what is happening in Australia
BlakeNotBleak on
Damn, that Australian sun
And I’m assuming Saudi is yellower than its neighbours cause they generally smoke less
But also, not drinking alcohol or eating pork plays a role as well
snydsa20 on
Global cancer *diagnosis* rates in people under age 50.
i_am_the_option on
Survivorship bias
7LeagueBoots on
I work in Vietnam and the data for Vietnam in this map looks very off. Lots of cancer here, lots of stomach cancer.
julioqc on
No dating but could we be seeing the Kylie Minogue screening effect here?
Sea_Holiday_7420 on
Word Reported or Diagnosed would be the key here.
callmesnake13 on
China doesn’t have cancer the way Iran doesn’t have homosexuality
Ok-Limit-9726 on
‘Reported cancer rates’
Australia 🇦🇺 has thousands of dedicated ‘skin cancer clinics’
I started going at 50, and started bowl cancer stool samples same time 💩🚽 (skin cancer subsidised, around $80 aud/$50 usd user pay, and free bowl screening)i have had 1 ‘hole’ punch biopsy last year, negative 🥰
My Boomer Parents in 70’s been doing it for decades also, none found yet, in laws (one silent generation) covered in skin cancer scars, father in law looked like Kiss lead singer with scars down both eyes/cheeks a few months ago, they do inspections/biopsies every 3-6months.
Edit my parents not big ‘beach people’(more hippy/artistic)
In laws lived on the beach, shirt off at work, no hat 👒 or sunscreen 🧴
Australian’s 🇦🇺now live 4.8 years longer than US 🇺🇸 citizens
VariousEnvironment90 on
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
IDontStealBikes on
A map without a data source is useless.
ThenDevelopment7022 on
Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
buckleyschance on
Part of the story here is age distribution of people under 50, presumably. Many of the yellow-shaded regions skew younger than many of the red-shaded regions, even after you ignore everyone 50+.
Thundrfox on
Maps a bit disingenuous for us in aus, we have really high screening rates because kits are so common and cheap.
AGrandNewAdventure on
Australia really is out here trying to kill everybody in every possible way.
proroygamer on
Doctor from Australia here. We have a population of 28 million. Australia wide, we cut out 200,000 – 300,000 non melanomas skin cancer per year. In my home state of Queensland, we have ~4000 melanomas per year for a population of 5 million (we are the skin capital of the world).
That said, I think this chart is a bit meaningless. Average age of death from cancer night be a bit more meaningful. For example, the vast majority of skin cancers are survivable – these days this also includes advanced melanoma.
EGJetter on
Yup. My doctor told me about this.
SevereReflection8989 on
Of course Australia’s levels of cancer are high😭 The UV levels are some of the highest in the world especially during Summer. Sun Safety is a must here in Australia.
Green-Choice-565 on
In Australia a lot of it is skin cancer from UV radiation from the sun.
The sun is absolutely brutal in Australia. You don’t know this unless you live here or have been here. 15 mins in the sun in summer without sunscreen and I am burning. Compare to summer in the UK or USA and I can go without sunscreen for a couple of hours no problems at all.
E_coli42 on
Skin cancer rates lines up pretty closely with States that ethnically cleanesed away the native population and is currently inhabited by colonizers and their descendants, like Australian, the US, Israel, etc.
Bonbonnibles on
*Based on cancer diagnoses, which people are more likely to get in developed countries*
bz47uj on
A big part of this is how old the people under 50 are. In Africa, the average person under 50 is a teenager. In the developed world, they’re probably closer to 30.
Kaffe-Mumriken on
In Africa and South America:
“Dies of natural causes at 47”
Front-Ad-7962 on
Sausage and sun
chelceec on
Australia has the highest skin cancer rates in the world that would skew the data and people get checked regularly.
Would be interesting to see the rates for other cancers if skin cancer wasn’t included.
jahsd on
What’s going on in India?
zpt2718 on
Now do cancer DEATHS. Lots of Australians get carcinomas, caused by being fair-skinned and living in a sunny location. Those carcinomas are almost all non-fatal. So yes, there is a lot of skin cancer, but is the rate of death from cancer in Australia that different from the rate in other countries?
MagicOrpheus310 on
Its funny because Australia just finished doing a huge cancer awareness campaign for people over 50 and even sent free home testing kits to people over 55 for like the last 5 or so years…
It’s worked… However people under 50 were somewhat ignored or given the false idea they didn’t need to worry about it until their 50s and so their cancer rate went up as the over 50s went down…
Well, actually that’s not funny at all, I think the word I was looking for was ironic?
WhlteMlrror on
Also Australia has universal healthcare.
So combine that with a large number of people with European ancestry living in a place with blistering sun and good healthcare and you’ve got people getting them moles checked.
A lot of workplaces also get free mole checks done annually. They literally bring people in to have a look at any moles anyone’s worried about, so it’s just too easy.
Saplino7819 on
Slip, slap, slop, that’s your reason
ProfeQuiroga on
Now do an honest comparison between 2019 and 2026, once the numbers are out.
PandoraKin564 on
NZ and AUS were in the shockwaves and fallout of French, Indian, and American nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Not to mention the areosole damage in the South Sea and North Antarctica. It really hit us hard, skin cancer, bowl cancer, Throat and Lung cancer (that is smoking mostly).
Cancers are super common for 50 and over as a result.
Edit: Skin and blood also common but that can be screening rates and how easy they are.
wi5p on

Inevitable_Space_568 on
high diagnosis rate of skin cancer in Aus but detected and treated very early
You send a sample of your own shit in the mail and the government checks it for cancer for free.
SuperSpiral on
See, I worry that if stupid politicians get in here in Australia they’ll see this and think „we should spend less on cancer detection so our numbers look more normal“
ProfessorKnow1tA11 on
Australia and New Zealand. A majority population of people with white skins living less than five kilometres from the surface of the sun! 🥵🥵
supercoach on
Your headline is wrong. What you’re seeing there is cancer screening effectiveness.
alediasw on
Does eating kangaroo cause cancer?!
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Now do cancer screening rates in those under 50
where is your source
Skin cancer?
I doubt the Central African Republic has the same robust cancer detection resources as Australia
I would assume that in many countries a good few cases go unreported where there isn’t great access to medical services
No source map. Southern Brazil alone has like >200 per 100k cases.
What’s going on in Australia? 🙁
Australia – sun
France – 1000 nuclear reactors
USA – their food
Is there a pattern here?
god what is happening in Australia
Damn, that Australian sun
And I’m assuming Saudi is yellower than its neighbours cause they generally smoke less
But also, not drinking alcohol or eating pork plays a role as well
Global cancer *diagnosis* rates in people under age 50.
Survivorship bias
I work in Vietnam and the data for Vietnam in this map looks very off. Lots of cancer here, lots of stomach cancer.
No dating but could we be seeing the Kylie Minogue screening effect here?
Word Reported or Diagnosed would be the key here.
China doesn’t have cancer the way Iran doesn’t have homosexuality
‘Reported cancer rates’
Australia 🇦🇺 has thousands of dedicated ‘skin cancer clinics’
I started going at 50, and started bowl cancer stool samples same time 💩🚽 (skin cancer subsidised, around $80 aud/$50 usd user pay, and free bowl screening)i have had 1 ‘hole’ punch biopsy last year, negative 🥰
My Boomer Parents in 70’s been doing it for decades also, none found yet, in laws (one silent generation) covered in skin cancer scars, father in law looked like Kiss lead singer with scars down both eyes/cheeks a few months ago, they do inspections/biopsies every 3-6months.
Edit my parents not big ‘beach people’(more hippy/artistic)
In laws lived on the beach, shirt off at work, no hat 👒 or sunscreen 🧴
Australian’s 🇦🇺now live 4.8 years longer than US 🇺🇸 citizens
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie
A map without a data source is useless.
Australia has the highest rates of skin cancer in the world.
Part of the story here is age distribution of people under 50, presumably. Many of the yellow-shaded regions skew younger than many of the red-shaded regions, even after you ignore everyone 50+.
Maps a bit disingenuous for us in aus, we have really high screening rates because kits are so common and cheap.
Australia really is out here trying to kill everybody in every possible way.
Doctor from Australia here. We have a population of 28 million. Australia wide, we cut out 200,000 – 300,000 non melanomas skin cancer per year. In my home state of Queensland, we have ~4000 melanomas per year for a population of 5 million (we are the skin capital of the world).
That said, I think this chart is a bit meaningless. Average age of death from cancer night be a bit more meaningful. For example, the vast majority of skin cancers are survivable – these days this also includes advanced melanoma.
Yup. My doctor told me about this.
Of course Australia’s levels of cancer are high😭 The UV levels are some of the highest in the world especially during Summer. Sun Safety is a must here in Australia.
In Australia a lot of it is skin cancer from UV radiation from the sun.
The sun is absolutely brutal in Australia. You don’t know this unless you live here or have been here. 15 mins in the sun in summer without sunscreen and I am burning. Compare to summer in the UK or USA and I can go without sunscreen for a couple of hours no problems at all.
Skin cancer rates lines up pretty closely with States that ethnically cleanesed away the native population and is currently inhabited by colonizers and their descendants, like Australian, the US, Israel, etc.
*Based on cancer diagnoses, which people are more likely to get in developed countries*
A big part of this is how old the people under 50 are. In Africa, the average person under 50 is a teenager. In the developed world, they’re probably closer to 30.
In Africa and South America:
“Dies of natural causes at 47”
Sausage and sun
Australia has the highest skin cancer rates in the world that would skew the data and people get checked regularly.
Would be interesting to see the rates for other cancers if skin cancer wasn’t included.
What’s going on in India?
Now do cancer DEATHS. Lots of Australians get carcinomas, caused by being fair-skinned and living in a sunny location. Those carcinomas are almost all non-fatal. So yes, there is a lot of skin cancer, but is the rate of death from cancer in Australia that different from the rate in other countries?
Its funny because Australia just finished doing a huge cancer awareness campaign for people over 50 and even sent free home testing kits to people over 55 for like the last 5 or so years…
It’s worked… However people under 50 were somewhat ignored or given the false idea they didn’t need to worry about it until their 50s and so their cancer rate went up as the over 50s went down…
Well, actually that’s not funny at all, I think the word I was looking for was ironic?
Also Australia has universal healthcare.
So combine that with a large number of people with European ancestry living in a place with blistering sun and good healthcare and you’ve got people getting them moles checked.
A lot of workplaces also get free mole checks done annually. They literally bring people in to have a look at any moles anyone’s worried about, so it’s just too easy.
Slip, slap, slop, that’s your reason
Now do an honest comparison between 2019 and 2026, once the numbers are out.
NZ and AUS were in the shockwaves and fallout of French, Indian, and American nuclear testing in the South Pacific. Not to mention the areosole damage in the South Sea and North Antarctica. It really hit us hard, skin cancer, bowl cancer, Throat and Lung cancer (that is smoking mostly).
Cancers are super common for 50 and over as a result.
Edit: Skin and blood also common but that can be screening rates and how easy they are.

high diagnosis rate of skin cancer in Aus but detected and treated very early
[National Bowel Cancer Screening Program](https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-screening-program?language=en)
You send a sample of your own shit in the mail and the government checks it for cancer for free.
See, I worry that if stupid politicians get in here in Australia they’ll see this and think „we should spend less on cancer detection so our numbers look more normal“
Australia and New Zealand. A majority population of people with white skins living less than five kilometres from the surface of the sun! 🥵🥵
Your headline is wrong. What you’re seeing there is cancer screening effectiveness.
Does eating kangaroo cause cancer?!