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Cancer: a worrying increase in cases
Cancer cases would increase by 77% by 2050, according to the World Health Organization. – (France 2)
Cancer cases would increase by 77% by 2050, according to the World Health Organization.
+ 77%, this is the increase in the number of new cases of cancer by 2050, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 35 million cases should be detected within a quarter of a century. Worrying forecasts. There are multiple factors that could explain this increase.
Cancer is becoming better and better treated
“Tobacco, obesity, alcohol… These are things that either continue to increase or stagnate in terms of risk factors. Air pollution is perhaps something that we talk about a lot more than the tobacco problem”, confides Professor Jean-Yves Pierga, oncologist at the Institut Curie. Good news all the same: for several years, cancer is becoming better and better treated. France is the third most powerful European country in terms of medical research, particularly in terms of the number of patents filed. Oncology, the study of cancerous tumors, is progressing rapidlyher too : + 70% of innovations in this area since 2015.
