Cancer To Rise By 81 Percent In Poor Countries – WHO
A Chinese woman from Beijing, who is the first vaccine recipient to be inoculated with the monovalent Gardasil 9 human papillomavirus vaccine against cervical cancer, receives the vaccination at Boao Super Hospital in Boao, Qionghai city, south China’s Hainan province, 30 May 2018. Stringer / ImaginechinaThe 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.
“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. “Controlling cancer does not have to be expensive,” Andre Ilbawi, of the WHO’s department for management of non-communicable diseases, told journalists.
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