The world is facing a new wave of cancer and the need to focus and
prevent this disease by reducing smoke, alcohol stopping obesity is
real.
The warning comes from the World Health Organization scientists, who plan that there will be 24 million more cases until 2035, and that half of them can be prevented. The World Cancer Research Fund said there was an “alarming” level of naivety about diet’s role in cancer.
It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach 24 million a year by 2035, but half could be prevented.
Fourteen million people a year are diagnosed with cancer, but that is predicted to increase to 19 million by 2025, 22 million by 2030 and 24 million by 2035.
In 20 years, the number of cancer patients could increase with 75%. It appears that developed countries will be mostly affected by this.
Chris Wild, the director of the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer, has said that the global cancer burden is increasing and quite markedly, due predominately to the ageing of the populations and population growth.
The annual report of WHO says that the major sources of cancer are alcohol, smoke and obesity.
February 4th is the international day against acncer.
The International Agency for Cancer Research, a specialized unit of the WHO, has published the report for 2014 one day before the World Day Against Cancer, February 4th.
The report notes that the cancer burden is increasing in an alarming way, and underlines the need for an urgent implementation of prevention strategies.
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