Cancer is a leading global cause of death and disability responsible for approximately 7.6 million deaths each year … global cancer control has been slow and patchy, largely due to the weak and fragmented nature of both the global and national … security and climate change, to overshadow cancer on the global policy agenda. This paper reviews the global burden of cancer …

Cancer is exacting severe costs from societies that are wholly unprepared to address it, and this toll will become even … heavier in future years. By 2020, cancer is expected to kill more than twice as many people worldwide as it did at the turn of … the industrialized world. Already, more than half a million women in low- and middle-income countries die from breast or …