WHO: Cancer Growing at "Alarming Pace"
World health agency says drugs alone won't work
Governments must make better use of vaccines and preventative public health policies in the fight against cancer as treatment alone cannot stem the disease, a World Health Organisation ( WHO) agency said on Monday.
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said cancer was growing "at an alarming pace" worldwide and new strategies were needed to curb the sometimes fatal and often costly disease.
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Couldn't open the link to the report, but I have to wonder if this is due to people the world over getting better nutrition and living longer.
It is NOT the result of GMOs as one idiot commenter had it.