Breast cancer is a common malignancy among women worldwide. Regardless of the
economic status of a country, breast cancer poses a burden in prevention, diagnosis and …

Background Smoking is the leading preventable cause of illness and premature death
worldwide. Some medications have been proven to help people to quit, with three licensed …

The global burden of cancer continues to increase largely because of the aging and growth
of the world population alongside an increasing adoption of cancer‐causing behaviors …

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the single largest cause of death in the developed
countries and is one of the leading causes of disease burden in developing countries. In …

Background Tobacco smoking is the cause of many preventable diseases and premature
deaths in the UK and around the world. It poses enormous health-and non-health-related …

This new edition of Health at a Glance presents the most recent comparable data on the
performance of health systems in OECD countries. Where possible, it also reports data for …

This special edition of Health at a Glance focuses on health issues across the 27 European
Union member states, three European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway …

Despite decreases in the cancer death rates in high-resource countries, such as the USA,
the number of cancer cases and deaths is projected to more than double worldwide over the …

Cigarette smoke is a complex mixture of chemicals including multiple genotoxic lung
carcinogens. The classic mechanisms of carcinogen metabolic activation to DNA adducts …

Cancer is an emerging public health problem in Africa. About 715,000 new cancer cases
and 542,000 cancer deaths occurred in 2008 on the continent, with these numbers expected …