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Cancer control in Europe works; now it is time to extend it to poorer countries
09-24-2007 · EurekAlert!Only a few years ago cancer was considered to be a disease of Westernized, developed countries, but now the burden is increasingly falling on less-developed countries. A leading epidemiologist told the European Cancer Conference that a major challenge for low-to-medium resource countries would be to find sufficient resources to treat the large numbers of cancers that would be diagnosed in their populations in the coming years.
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