WHO warns global cancer cases could nearly double by 2050 without urgent action
Researchers say 44 modifiable risk factors could help prevent more than 4 in 10 cancer deaths worldwide.
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The body estimates that the new diagnoses will go from 20.6 million a year to about 35 million in the next decades
The number of new cancers worldwide could rise sharply, and the WHO warns against 35 million cases per year by 2050.
The number of new cancer cases diagnosed worldwide each year could rise from 20.6 million in 2024 to 35 million in 2050, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. It can still be halted, but only if countries take urgent measures.
Diagnosis Cancer is a blow: for sufferers and relatives. According to WHO, almost all people are confronted with this issue at least once in their lives.
The World Health Organization (WHO) warned this Wednesday that the continued increase in cancer cases in the world threatens to make this disease one of the greatest public health challenges. If urgent prevention and access to treatment measures are not taken, the number of new cases could double by 2050. Currently, the body has a total of 20.6 million new cases per year on all continents and expects that, by the middle of this century, there wi…
Despite medical advances, experts expect significantly more cancer cases worldwide. They see the problem not only in known risk factors.
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