The globalisation of cancer
2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 368; Issue: 9536 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s0140-6736(06)69225-8
ISSN1474-547X
Autores Tópico(s)Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy
ResumoThe International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was founded by a Resolution of the World Health Assembly in September, 1965. 1 Resolution WHA18.44 of the Eighteenth World Health Assembly on the Establishment of an International Agency for Research on Cancer. http://policy.who.int/cgi-bin/om_isapi.dll?infobase=WHA&softpage=Browse_Frame_Pg42 Google Scholar At that time, although data were sparse, cancer was widely considered to be a disease of developed high-resource countries. 2 Doll R Payne P Waterhouse JAH Cancer incidence in five continents. Springer-Verlag, Berlin1966 Crossref Google Scholar Now, the situation has changed dramatically with the majority of the global cancer burden found in low-resource and medium-resource countries.
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