Sept. 13 (UPI)
--
Cancer will kill an estimated 9.6 million people in the world this year and
18.1 million new cases will be diagnosed, according to the World Health
Organization's cancer research agency.
The International Agency for Research on
Cancer, which announced its findings Wednesday, said the number of new cases,
the prevalence after five years and the number of deaths was due to several
factors that include social and economic development and growing and aging
populations. Also, cancers are shifting from poverty and infections toward ones
linked to lifestyles and diets.
The survey is based on data from
185 countries and 36 types of cancer.
In 2012, when the last survey was
published, there were an estimated 14.1 million cases and 8.2 million deaths.
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