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Women in Developing Countries Bear Brunt of Cancer Epidemic
Worldwide, incidence of all types of cancer will double over the next two decades, with roughly 26.4 million new cases and 17 million deaths annually by 2030, a coalition of cancer specialists warned at a congress in Berlin.
"The global cancer epidemic is not only growing, however, it is also changing," they said in a paper presented at the meeting.
"Once considered a disease of wealthy, industrialised societies, cancer is now increasingly a health burden for less-developed regions of the world.
"More than half of the 12.4 million estimated new cases of cancer in 2008, and two-thirds of the estimated 7.6 million cancer deaths, occurred in low- and middle-income countries, where cancer kills more people each year than AIDS, TB and malaria."
Someone with cancer in a developing country runs triple the risk of dying prematurely compared with a counterpart in a wealthy economy, they said bluntly.
The risk is being borne especially by women in resource-poor settings.
Success rates for tackling breast and cervical cancers -- dubbed "silent killers" for their lethal stealth -- are rising in wealthy countries.
But in developing countries, the disease "remains a low priority" for spending, which is reflected in the death toll, the paper said.
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