American Heart Association comment on the World Cancer Report

This week the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organisation (WHO), released updated cancer death projections in a call to action, asking the government to help fund cancer prevention and research initiatives and international tobacco control policies. According to the report, the burden of cancer doubled globally between 1975 and 2000, and cancer is expected to become the leading cause of death worldwide in 2010...

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