WHO Forecasts Cancer Jump In Low, Middle Income Countries
Source: France24
The UN health agency on Tuesday warned cancer cases would rise by 81 percent in low- and middle-income countries by 2040 because of a lack of investment in prevention and care.
The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report that these countries had focused their limited resources on combating infectious diseases and improving maternal and child health instead of fighting cancer.
It said they often had the highest cancer mortality too. "This is a wake-up call to all of us to tackle the unacceptable inequalities between cancer services in rich and poor countries," Ren Minghui, a WHO Assistant Director General, said in the report.
"If people have access to primary care and referral systems then cancer can be detected early, treated effectively and cured. Cancer should not be a death sentence for anyone, anywhere," he said...
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The report said an investment of $25 billion over the next decade could save 7 million lives from cancer. "Controlling cancer does not have to be expensive," a WHO expert told journalists.
Cancer had long been considered a disease of wealthy countries, but this was no longer the case, the report said. It stated that one in five people worldwide would face a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime. "It's a global burden," Ren said.
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If so, we should also consider how cancer rates in the US will climb thanks to the traitors dismantling of environmental protections here in our own country. 
