Cancer deaths to double by the year 2030U.N. report: 13 million around world will die each year, twice those in 2008
LONDON - Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that almost 21.4 million new cases of the disease will be diagnosed annually in 2030.
Launching a new database on global incidence of cancer in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, the IARC said the burden of cancer was shifting from wealthier to poorer nations.
Cancer is neither rare anywhere in the world, nor confined to high-resource countries," it said in a statement.
In total, 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2008 and there were an estimated 12.7 million new cases diagnosed.
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LONDON - Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations' cancer research agency said on Tuesday.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that almost 21.4 million new cases of the disease will be diagnosed annually in 2030.
Launching a new database on global incidence of cancer in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, the IARC said the burden of cancer was shifting from wealthier to poorer nations.
Cancer is neither rare anywhere in the world, nor confined to high-resource countries," it said in a statement.
In total, 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2008 and there were an estimated 12.7 million new cases diagnosed.
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