Every year, more than 2 million women worldwide are diagnosed with breast or cervical
cancer, yet where a woman lives, her socioeconomic status, and agency largely determines …

Breast and cervical cancer are major threats to the health of women globally, particularly in
low-income and middle-income countries. Radical progress to close the global cancer …

Abstract Each year, 200,000 more women die from breast and cervical cancer than from
pregnancy and childbirth. Over 50% of deaths from breast cancer and 88% of deaths from …

This review is an abbreviated version of a report prepared for the American Cancer Society
Global Health department and EMD Serono, Inc., a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt …

The worldwide burden of cancer is substantial and growing. More than one in six deaths
globally are due to cancer, with 19 million new cancer cases and 10 million new cancer …

The health burden of cancer is increasing in China, with more than 1· 6 million people being
diagnosed and 1· 2 million people dying of the disease each year. As in most other …

The health concerns of women in their mid-adult years–when the prime age of reproduction
has passed–have been traditionally given little or no attention by health systems and …

Cervical, endometrial, and breast cancers are paradigms for global health disparity. The
paucity of well-designed and-used cancer registries obstructs accurate assessment and …

Although age-adjusted cancer death rates have started to decline in the United States and
other developed nations–thanks in large part to widespread screening programs that detect …

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