Poor countries need help to fight cancer-WHO

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GENEVA, June 7 (Reuters) - International experts on Tuesday said help was urgently needed so poorer countries can better detect and treat cancer, which is blamed for 7 million deaths a year worldwide, far more than AIDS.

About 25 million people live with cancer and nearly 11 million new cases are diagnosed each year, of which one in three is preventable, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Among men, lung and stomach cancers are the most common, while for women the most common are breast and cervical cancer.

Robert Beaglehole, WHO's director of chronic diseases and health promotion, estimated that up to 80 percent of all cancer deaths each year are in developing countries.

[Betsy Ross]

1. How about we stop

shipping our hazzardous waster to poor countries for processing and disposal. But that's too easy a way to cut the cancer rate.