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Cancer deaths will double over the next
20 years, the former chief of the World Health Organization's
(WHO) cancer program warned Monday.
The WHO estimated that the number of new
cases of cancer would increase
from 10 million
to 20 million per year
and the number of deaths from 6 million to 12 million per
year.
Three quarters of these patients will
live in developing countries where better sanitation, housing
and medical care will boost life expectancy but bring many
more people into the cancer age range, he explained.
Smoking
and diet were each estimated to cause 3
million cancers a year.
London March
26, 2001 Reuters Wire Service
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