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International Cancer Care

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Abstract

Cancer is a major source of morbidity and mortality in developed countries, and both are rapidly increasing in developing countries, so that prevention and control have a high priority in public health. Time trends and worldwide incidence and mortality figures provide clues to the multiple causative factors involved in human cancers. Such data are supplemented by observations on changes in risk of cancer in migrant populations who in time acquire the cancer pattern of the host country. Ad hoc epidemiological studies and analysis of data obtained under controlled conditions in animal models have defined specific carcinogenic factors. Considerable progress has been made during the last decade in the understanding of the mechanisms of cancer and the mode of action of carcinogenic agents, including, recently, the biological processes triggering uncontrolled division of cells. In this review we describe briefly the worldwide cancer burden and the principal known causative factors, and discuss the potential for cancer prevention.

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