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The Lancet Oncology, Volume 5, Issue 11, Page 644, November 2004
doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(04)01620-1Cite or Link Using DOI

WHO puts cancer on global health agenda

Hannah Brown
Cancer control will top the agenda at next year's World Health Assembly—WHO's decision-making body— The Lancet Oncology has learned. At their annual meeting (timetabled for May 21—25, 2005) representatives from all 192 WHO member states will debate a resolution entitled Cancer prevention and control , the draft form of which was approved by WHO's Executive Board earlier this year.
The document describes the organisation's alarm at rising numbers of new cancer cases, “in particular in developing count ...

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a Department of Complementary Medicine, School of P ostgraduate Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX2 4NT, UK
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