Director, International Agency for Research on Cancer
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Re-elected to second five-year term
Four in ten cancer cases worldwide could be prevented. That finding, from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, marks the first time researchers have quantified the combined burden of behavioral, environmental, occupational, and infectious causes of cancer using global data from 185 countries. The analysis, published in Nature Medicine ahead of World Cancer Day, estimates that 7.1 million cancer cases in 2022 were linked to just 30 modifiable risk factors.
Updated Feb 19
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