Assignment task: Chronic diseases and cancer are two major epidemiology categories. For this discussion, identify a chronic disease and a cancer.
For the chronic diseases Breast cancer and Lung cancer, provide information on incidence, prevalence, risk, and environmental factors associated with the disease.
How could increased awareness of this information impact health-related behaviors in someone's life?
Discuss the three pathways of the specified cancer Breast Cancer. Be sure to support your statements with concepts you have gained thus far from the course and link the common risk factors associated from each pathway to your selected cancer.
Does this cancer occur in residents of developing countries, developed countries, or both? Why?
What is the economic impact of this cancer in terms of treatment costs and funding allocations?
Please add scholarly references.