[ RadSafe ] IAEA to assess Latin America´s growing cancer burden

[Jose Julio Rozental]

Press Release 2007/05
IAEA Nobel Prize Money Fights Cancer Crisis in Latin America
http://www.iaea.or.at/NewsCenter/PressReleases/2007/prn200705.html
18 April 2007

More than 60 of the world´s leading cancer experts are being brought 
together in Buenos Aires, 23-27 April 2007, by the International Atomic 
Energy Agency (IAEA) to assess Latin America´s growing cancer burden.

Poor medical facilities and lack of trained personnel and funding are 
limiting countries´ ability to expand cancer care services and treat 
patients, while cancer rates are expected to double by 2020. More than 70 
per cent of all cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries and 
globally cancer kills more people than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis 
combined.
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Jose Julio Rozental 
joseroze at netvision.net.il 
Israel