[BicCherry]

Lifetime risk of CANCER for Singaporeans likely far exceeds 50%.

According to MOH statistics, 37% of Singaporean deaths are recorded as due to cancer. However, this must be only the tip of the iceberg in terms of sufferers for 2 big reasons: Firstly, some cancer related deaths are conveniently recorded as 'pneumonia' because 'pneumonia' is the most proximate cause of death. Secondly, many cancers at early stage are 'curable' with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, albeit with lifelong scarring and side effects (some cancers are incurable, but cancer suppressing immunotherapy costing SGD20,000/mth can be used to prolong(/extend) a patient's life).

Another approx 1/3 officially die from vascular disease related to bad lifestyle and mainly stress (heart failure, diabetes, stroke, renal failure); again tip of the iceberg because many drag on and are eventually pronounced dead from pneumonia (like Lee Kuan Yew who was warded in SGH ICU on ventilator for pneumonia for at least 2 weeks till dead)... but we all know that vast majority getting pneumonia are already sufferers of pre-existing cancer and vascular disease (like LKY who couldn't stand unsupported during NDP due to his nerve problems and diminished strength due to sedentary lifestyle and tobacco smoking during his younger days)... since 'pneumonia' is primary cause of death is recorded, many cancers and other preventable vascular causes are omitted from mortality statistics due to requirements to publish only the most proximate cause of death as reported (thus the large number of deaths meaninglessly classified and reported as 'pneumonia' in national mortality statistics).

Thus, while on the outside, looks like Singaporeans are healthy and the economy is functioning well, actually below the surface reveals untold suffering as majority of Singaporeans needlessly suffer and die from entirely avoidable and preventable cancers and chronic disease ... All caused by stressful and unhealthy lifestyle that PAP imposed due to undemocratic, authoritarian and class based control that the PAP copied/ continued from the old Colonial British government:


Info source: https://www.moh.gov.sg/content/moh_web/home/Publications/information_papers/2010/trend_in_adult_mortalityinsingapore.html

[Stormsmith]

SINGAPORE — Singaporeans live longer than most other nationalities and they also do so in full health, according to the latest World Health Statistics report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The report, published on Wednesday (May 17), ranked the Republic third in the world for average life expectancy, behind Japan and Switzerland.

The average life expectancy in Singapore was 83.1 years. Japan, which has topped the rankings for close to three decades now, had an average life expectancy of 83.7 years, while Switzerland’s was 83.4 years.

Another statistic that the WHO report examined was healthy life expectancy, which refers to the number of years people live in full health. According to the report, Singapore was second in the world in this category at 73.9 years, behind Japan (74.9 years) and ahead of South Korea (73.2 years).

The report also found that women lived longer than men across the world. The global average was 69.1 years for men and 73.8 years for women. In Singapore, women could expect to live for 86.1 years (second in the world), while the average male expectancy was 80.1 years (10th).

http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-3rd-world-life-expectancy-who-report