Prevention Is Crucial to Stem 'Tidal Wave of Cancer'
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Prevention of cancer is key, say experts speaking out today on World Cancer Day. Cancer as a single entity is now the world's leading cause of death, with 8.2 million deaths a year, according to the Union for International Cancer Control. Prevention has a crucial role to play in stemming the "tidal wave of cancer that we are facing," said Dr. Bernard Stewart, from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, and coeditor of the World Cancer Report 2014, issued by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
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@jack It's untenable to think that we can treat our way out of the cancer problem. More commitment to prevention and early detection is desperately needed in order to complement improved treatments and address the alarming rise in cancer burden globally. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide (after breast cancer), and it is still common in sub-Sahara Africa and in areas of South America and Southeast Asia. And yet this is a cancer for which there are very efficient early detection systems (including a cheap detection method based on vinegar) and for which there is a vaccine