Global Cancer Fund Needed to Fight Surging Cases in Poor Nations
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A global fund is needed to curb ballooning cancer rates in poor nations, where malignancies already kill more people than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, according to a report by a coalition of researchers.
Progress against infectious diseases, aided by organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, has helped extend life expectancy. As people live longer, other illnesses such as cancer are more likely to develop. In sub-Saharan Africa, the number of new cancer cases will double in the next 15 years, straining medical systems there, the researchers said at the European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam today.