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Cancer prevention and control in the context of an integrated approach : Report
Health Risk Environment
Cancers
Description
Progress in cancer control has been uneven. In spite of known effective interventions, the burden of cervical cancer, for example, remains greatest in low- and middle-income countries, where progress has been the slowest. While there have been moderate improvements in age-standardized cancer mortality rates in high-income countries, reaching a 25% reduction in some settings, overall declines in mortality from cancer have not been achieved globally.