WHO and the cancer community are responding with renewed urgency to address breast cancer and to respond to the growing cancer burden globally that is straining individuals, communities and health systems. The global cancer landscape is changing, according to WHO experts. Breast cancer has now overtaken lung cancer as the world’s mostly commonly-diagnosed cancer, according… Continue reading Breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the world’s mostly commonly-diagnosed cancer
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Cancers linked to obesity to double by 2025 in Brazil
The number of people suffering from cancers associated with obesity or overweight — such as breast, colon and prostate tumours — is expected to double in Brazil by 2025, up from just over 15,000 for every 470,000 new cases diagnosed in 2012.