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Cancer to become world’s biggest killer by 2010

Cancer will pass heart disease to become the world’s top killer by 2010, while the number of cancer cases and deaths should double by 2030.

This year, there are expected to be 12 million cancer diagnoses and seven million cancer deaths reported around the world, a number that is predicted to hit 27 million a year with 17 million deaths each year in the next 20 years. If the use of tobacco in Asia increases at the present rate.

More than 40% of the worlds smokers live in Asia.

The experts from the American Cancer Society, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and the National Cancer Institute of Mexico released their findings at a press conference held December 9, 2008.

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