Redefining global health priorities: Improving cancer care in developing settings
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Redefining global health priorities: Improving cancer care in developing settings
Every year, more than 10 million people are diagnosed with cancer. Over half of them live in the developing world, where the cancer incidence rate has reached pandemic proportions. In 2008 there were upward of 12.4 million estimated new cases of cancer, with approximately two–thirds of the estimated 7 .6 million cancer deaths occurring in low–and middle–income countries [1]. Although low– and m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Global Health
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2047-2978,2047-2986
DOI: 10.7189/jogh.04.010304