2024-10-10 16:54:00
DESCRIBED – The therapeutic advances made in recent years cannot be discussed. But to win the war we must start a ruthless fight against this disease, even before it is declared.
Some data are painful: in 2023 in France there will be more than 433,000 people diagnosed with cancer. This is the sad observation made a few days ago by the National Institute against Cancer (INca). Worse still: the World Health Organization (WHO) predicts an increase in the number of cancers by 77% by 2050. This means more than 766,000 cases per year in France in about thirty years! Mainly in question: changes in lifestyle and aging of the population. What to do in the face of this galloping inflation? Are you looking for new medications?
INCa gives priority to prevention and screening. “We must find solutions to reduce the number of cancers, warns Professor Jean-Yves Blay, medical oncologist, director general of the Léon-Bérard Center and president of Unicancer. If we allow all these cancers to grow, there probably won’t be enough oncologists to treat them, and not enough money to deal with them…
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