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...leading cancer experts, it doesn't have to be that way. Organizations including the American Cancer Society, Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the Lance Armstrong Foundation joined the IARC in releasing the report and proposing an action plan to help nations control the growth of the disease. "Although cancer is a great, growing and devastating disease," says Boyle, "it is largely preventable." (Read "5 Truths About Health Care in America...
Tobacco, for example, is responsible for a third of cancer deaths in North America and Europe. Recent efforts to corral tobacco use by countries such as Scotland and Ireland, which banned smoking in bars, restaurants and public places, have led to significant drops in cigarette use and in hospitalizations for heart attacks. Any changes in the incidence of cancer, which takes longer to develop, may appear in coming years. A wide-ranging cancer prevention program adopted by the European Union in 1985 helped the continent avoid 98,000 cancer deaths...
...price of all that lighting up, with a record 33% of all middle-aged deaths caused by cigarettes. If smoking in China continues to climb in coming years - and without public health programs to discourage it, it likely will - an even higher proportion of its population will succumb to cancer after...
Curbing global cancer rates is not simply a matter of transferring the successful prevention methods from the U.S. and Europe to the developing world, however. The most common cancers outside our borders are caused by chronic infections with viruses - very different from the ones that afflict us. In Africa, for example, the three most common cancers are Kaposi's sarcoma (related to HIV infection) and liver and cervical cancer. In China, liver cancer is a huge problem. The good news is that while researchers are still working on an effective AIDS vaccine, they can vaccinate against the hepatitis B virus...
...governments, health organizations and citizens, both to provide medical intervention such as screenings and immunizations and to encourage lifestyle changes that help individuals reduce their risk in the first place. "This report should serve as a clear and concise reminder that we are in the middle of a growing cancer crisis worldwide," says Boyle. It should also remind us that we have the power to contain...