In 2030, the world has 75 million people living with cancer

According to the director of the International Agency for Cancer Research under the World Health Organization (WHO), in 2030, the number of cancer cases in the world will more than double compared to 2000, with 27 million new cases. diagnosed with the disease.

According to estimates by the agency, in 2000, worldwide there were 11 million new cases of cancer diagnosed, 7 million people died of cancer and 25 million people were living with cancer.

(Photo: AnGiang) These numbers in 2030 will be: 27 million new cancer cases, 17 million cancer deaths and 75 million people must live with cancer.

Dr. Peter Boyle, director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, said the cause of this rapid increase is the increase in population, the longevity of human life, the number of smokers in developing countries. more and more and lack of health care systems in poor countries.

'We estimate that from 2000 to 2030, the number of diagnosed cancers will double every year,' Boyle said. 'We are focusing on the fight against cancer in conditional countries but we do not closely monitor what is happening in poor countries'.

Boyle also argued that one of the reasons for the decline in cancer rates in developed countries over the past 40 years was that they exported dangerous factors such as alcohol and tobacco to poor countries.

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