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 …

socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes. We also explore the individual-specific effects of Long Covid. We develop and … calibrate a health economic model based on principles of the biology of human aging that captures the interaction between … infections and chronic health deficits. Our analysis suggests that neglecting this interaction leads to a gross underestimation …

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 … cervical cancer alone each year (Garcia et al., 2007). The poorer regions of the world also account for more than 90% of …