Global cancer deaths are projected to increase 60 per cent from 8.8 million deaths per year now to 13 million in the next two decades, according to the World Health Organisation.
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Cancer affects people all over the world.
Nearly 70 per cent cancer deaths occur in under-developed and developing countries, according to WHO.
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Lung, Liver, Stomach, Colorectal and Prostate.
These 5 cancers are the top killers for men, according to WHO.
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Breast, Lung, Colorectal, Cervical and Stomach.
These 5 cancers are the top killers for women, according to WHO.
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Up to 50 per cent cancers are preventable.
Tobacco -- the main and most lethal cause of cancer -- causes 22 per cent of cancer deaths.
Tobacco use in India in all its forms was 17 per cent in 2015, according to WHO.
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Vaccinations prevent cancer.
Some 1.1 million cancer cases can be prevented every year if people vaccinate themselves against hepatitis B and human papillomavirus (HPV), according to WHO.
Liver cancer is cause by hepatits B. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV.
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Access to cancer treatment is very poor in many countries.
In India, as per a 2015 Ernst & Young study: 'Access to multimodal treatment options is inadequate and 40 to 60 per cent of the facilities and oncologists are concentrated in the top seven to eight metropolitan cities of India hampering equitable access to treatment.'
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Cancer treatement is expensive.
$1.16 trillion was spent in 2015 on treating cancer worldwide, according to WHO.
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Nearly 2 million cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year worldwide.
In India, in 2012, as per statistics from www.breastcancerindia.net, 144,937 women were diagnosed with breast cancer.
As per the 2015 Ernst & Young study, India owns just 2,700 mammograms machines, 5 per cent of what the US owns.
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Some 6.9 per cent of fresh cancer cases in India are lung cancer.
And 9.3 per cent of cancer deaths for both women and men are caused by lung cancer, as per a study published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research by Prabhat Singh Malik and Vinod Raina.
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