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Cancer remains a scourge in America, but new government figures show that for the first time, both new cases and deaths from cancer declined simultaneously. What's more, while cancer rates for men and women often diverge, with one group making progress while the other loses ground, in the latest report, both sexes improved. The news, however, was not as happy elsewhere. The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) released its World Cancer Report, revealing that the burden of cancer around the world has more than doubled over the past 30 years. What's most...
...latest estimates show just how widespread that problem is. In 2007 there were 12 million new cancer cases worldwide, a record high; in 2000, the number was 10 million and in 1975 it was 5.9 million. Of the new cases last year, nearly half struck in developing countries. If these trends continue, health officials predict that by 2030, 17 million people will die worldwide of cancer, and 75 million people will be living with the disease and require treatment and follow-up care. That makes cancer the leading killer in the world, claiming more lives than AIDS, TB and malaria...
...within single digits again until late in the second half. Three-pointers from Dini and Hinton kept the lead hovering close to 20 points late in the opening half. After the Crimson surrendered 20 offensive rebounds in Saturday’s loss at Providence, turnovers were the latest eye-popping stat to hand victory to an opponent. Harvard turned the ball over 22 times last night, 11 in each half. “We were trying too hard,” Rollins said. “We knew we need to pick up the energy and get things going...
...speech, Merkel took a swipe at the theology so devoutly promulgated by Brown and Sarkozy - as well as by the U.S. President-elect Barack Obama - that governments should spend their way out of recession. "We will not take part in a race to top the latest proposals in a senseless race to spend billions," said Merkel, who has announced $15.4 billion in measures to stimulate the German economy - less than half the $33.4 billion France will apply to the same problem, and Britain's $34.8 billion package. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck was even more blunt. "Just because...
Presidential candidate and UC Finance Committee Chair Andrea R. Flores ’10, who was not a co-sponsor of the recent UC legislation, said that she is upset that she was not asked to be involved in the UC’s latest legislation. Sundquist said that he asked for participation from UC representatives in an e-mail...