Global cancer cases could see 50 percent increase by 2020

Friday, April 4, 2003

LONDON -- The number of new cancer cases worldwide is expected to increase by 50 percent over the next 20 years, partly because poor nations are adopting unhealthy Western habits, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

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