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...Cancer remains a scourge in America, but new government figures show that for the first time, both new cases and deaths from cancer declined simultaneously. What's more, while cancer rates for men and women often diverge, with one group making progress while the other loses ground, in the latest report, both sexes improved. The news, however, was not as happy elsewhere. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released its World Cancer Report, revealing that the burden of cancer around the world has more than doubled over the past 30 years. What's most...
...attention to cancer trends, and the trend has been encouraging," says Dr. Richard Schilsky, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. "But we have forgotten that there is a big wide world out there. Cancer is a global problem." (See pictures of Cancer survivors...
...latest estimates show just how widespread that problem is. In 2007 there were 12 million new cancer cases worldwide, a record high; in 2000, the number was 10 million and in 1975 it was 5.9 million. Of the new cases last year, nearly half struck in developing countries. If these trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria...
...they do, what motivates them, what they're afraid of, what they're hoping. I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things that happen. A hip fracture, three different kinds of lung cancer, pneumonia, blood poisoning...
...filled Cambridge’s streets just one short month ago, as “not just a culmination, but a new beginning” for America. Who better than this particular elder statesman to make such a pronouncement? In the midst of his ongoing struggle with brain cancer and what will likely be his last term as a U.S. Senator, Kennedy has not only witnessed but also participated in much of America’s commendable progress over the last half-century. He has known, intimately, the lowest lows and highest highs of his country’s flight...