Cancer Deaths In World
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) GENEVA. July 18. The United Nations World Health Organisation said today that more than 2 million people die each year from cancer, one of the few deadly diseases which is increasing in spite of the grow-th of medical science.
A W.H.O. paper released in Geneva reported that more than 5 million people were suffering from cancer and that for every cancer patient there were four or five more with some form of precancerous disease.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29880, 21 July 1962, Page 14
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