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World Cancer Report 2008 [OP] by P Boyle; Bernard Levin; International Agency for Research on Cancer.; World Health Organization is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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It is estimated that there will be over 12 million people diagnosed with cancer this year. Hardly any family has not been touched by cancer, and when cancer hits it can hit hard. The burden on society caused by cancer is immense, not only in terms of the human suffering of patients and their relatives and friends, but the cost of cancer in economic terms. The strain cancer produces on health professionals and health systems is substantial and growing rapidly. The World Cancer Report 2008 provides a unique global view of cancer and documents many important features of the global situation. The global cancer burden doubled in the last thirty years of the twentieth century, and it is estimated that this will double again between 2000 and 2020 and nearly triple by 2030. Until recently, cancer was considered a disease of westernized, industrialized countries. Today the situation has changed dramatically with the majority of the global cancer burden now found in low- and medium-resource countries. The greatest impact of this coming increase will fall on the low- and medium-resource countries, which frequently have a limited health budget and a high background level of communicable dise

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Author

P Boyle; Bernard Levin; International Agency for Research on Cancer.; World Health Organization

Publisher

World Health Organization

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789283204237

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Medicine