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Plans, and Champions, Needed To Control Growing World Cancer Burden, IOM Report Says
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Infectious diseases don't kill most residents in low- and middle-income countries anymore. Chronic disorders claim the most lives. But while many of these countries have started to address heart conditions and mental disorders, they have left cancer largely untouched or placed it too far down the health care priority list, according to a new Institute of Medicine report released on World Cancer Day.
The result, according to Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, is that more people in these countries die from cancer each year (4 million) than from AIDS (3 million), and more cases of cancer are now being diagnosed in these regions (6 million) than in higher-income countries (5 million). As these countries, which represent most of the world's population, continue to adopt the unhealthy behaviors of wealthier nations, the numbers are expected to rise, the report warns.
"Where there is a lot of infectious disease,
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