BMJ  2008;336:299 (9 February), doi:10.1136/bmj.39483.400590.DB

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Registries needed to track cancer deaths in poor countries, says report

Susan Mayor

1 London

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Registration schemes for deaths and cancers are urgently needed in poor countries, which bear most of the global cancer burden, says a report published this week.

The report, the 2007 Annual World Cancer Data Update, estimates that there were 10.4 million new cases of cancer, 6.5 million cancer deaths, and 25 million people with cancer in 2000. It predicts that new cases will more than double to 26.4 million by 2030, with 16.4 million deaths from cancer and 75 million people living with the disease. Most of this increase will be in less developed countries.

The report has been developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization. It warns, "The majority of the global cancer burden has now shifted from Westernised, developed countries several decades ago to medium and low resource countries.

"WHO regions with a large proportion of countries of low . . . [Full text of this article]


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