As World Population Rises, Cancer Rates Almost Double

According to a new report published by the World Health Organization, there will be 20 million new cases of cancer by the year 2030 (there are about 12 million a year today). As survival rates improve in the US, more than half of these new cases, and most of deaths, occur in poor and developing nations. “China and India are going to dominate with 25 percent of the world’s population,” said Dr. Peter Boyle, a co-editor of the report and the director of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. “What happens there is going to drive the numbers.”