SURGING CANCER CRISIS
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Estimated 3.5 million new cancer cases kill 2.5 million Chinese each year
About 3.5 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed annually, leading to at least 2.5 million deaths from the disease, said the deputy director of the National Cancer Registration Center, Xinhua reported.
“Although Chinese people’s livelihood has improved, cancer incidence and mortality have also been on the rise,” he said.
Unsurprisingly, cancer has taken just a few decades to become the top killer in China.
“In 1964, cancer ranked the fourth-biggest cause of death, while from 1970 to 1989, it ranked second, and data from 2007 showed that it had become the top killer for Chinese,” said a former senior official at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Cancer in Beijing
Meanwhile, cancer was identified as the No.1 cause of death in Beijing for the seventh consecutive year (2007 to 2013), in a report released by the municipal commission of health and family planning this week, Xinhua said.
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