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Cancer experts join forces to call for noncommunicable diseases to be included in the Millennium Development Goals
Published in Cancer Weekly, October 5th, 2010
In a Comment published Online First in The Lancet Oncology, global cancer leaders are calling for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) to be included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as a matter of urgency, to prevent millions of unnecessary deaths. Waiting until 2015 when the MDGs expire and successor goals are implemented will be too late. It is, they say, imperative that member states include NCDs in the current MDGs in their review of the goals at the MDG Summit in New York this week.
According to the heads of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Lance Armstrong Foundation (LiveSTRONG), International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-10-05)
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