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Cancer could increase globally by 50 percer
By Emma Ross
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — The number of new cancer cases
worldwide is expected to increase by 50 percent
over the next 20 years, partly because poor nations
are adopting unhealthy Western habits, the World
Health Organization said Thursday.
The World Cancer Report is the first compre
hensive examination of cancer around the globe,
covering the current understanding of its causes,
prevention and treatment.
“The overall message is that we can prevent a
third of cancers,” said one of the report’s editors,
Australian cancer specialist Bernard Stewart.
Worldwide, about 10 million people are diag
nosed with cancer every year and 6 million people
die from it. The report projects that the annual
number of diagnoses will reach 15 million by
2020, based on current trends in smoking, diet and
exercise.
Although one-third of the cases theoretically
were preventable, that does not mean the coming
increase realistically could be slashed by that
amount, said WHO’s cancer chief, Dr. Paul Kleihues.
“I think what we can do is slow down the
increase. Anything more is not realistic,” said
Kleihues, director of WHO’s International Agency
for Research on Cancer.
Rich nations have more cancer than poor ones,
mostly because of tumors tied to bad habits such
as smoking and drinking, eating too much or the
wrong kinds of foods, and lack of exercise.
“If we want to go back to a lifestyle associated
with a low incidence of cancer, small changes to
our lifestyles would not be sufficient. We would
really have to go down to a very restricted diet, no
overfeeding, starting in childhood. I don't think
that’s realistic expectation,” Kleihues said.
From one angle, the task of stemming the
impending rise in cancer is easier in poor coun
tries, Kleihues said, because 23 percent of tumors
there are due to infections that can be prevented
now or soon.
“We already have a first-class vaccination
against hepatitis B virus and there is no question
that soon the rates of hepatitis B-induced liver
cancer will come down in many countries,” he
said.
Eradication of the helicobacter pylori bug,
which causes stomach cancer, also would help, as
would the advent of a vaccine against the human
papillomavirus, which causes cervical cancer.
However, officials are especially concerned
about the trend toward unhealthy lifestyles in the
developing world, where early detection and treat
ment of cancer is not as good as in rich nations.
In developing countries, 80 percent of cancer
patients die, compared with 50 percent in rich
nations.
“It’s quite disturbing. Many of them are taking
up smoking and striving to get the Western
lifestyle. That’s very hard to stop. They will unfor
tunately miss this unique chance of maintaining a
low cancer burden,” Kleihues said.
WHO plans to update the 350-page cancer
report every few years.
The report attempts to condense the wealth of
knowledge about cancer into one book, offering
governments an important resource in their efforts
to tackle the disease.
“This book has the advantage of putting
between two relatively slim covers all of the facts
that otherwise amount to a stack of textbooks
about 5 feet tall,” said Stewart, director of cancer
services for the Southeastern Sydney area health
service.
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No credible domestic terror threats in U.S. since war bega
By Curt Anderson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — There have been
no credible threats of domestic terrorist
attacks since the war began, but federal
law enforcement officials said
Thursday there are no plans to reduce
the terror alert status.
The nation will probably remain on
high alert for the duration of hostilities
with Iraq even if no evidence surfaces
of an impending terrorist attack, said
law enforcement officials, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
Authorities are convinced there
exists a “hidden network of cold
blooded killers,” as Attorney General
John Ashcroft recently put it. But they
acknowledge being pleasantly sur
prised that the war has not so far trig
gered a response by terror groups or so-
called “lone wolf” extremists.
The Bush administration raised the
terror alert from yellow, or elevated, to
orange, the second-highest level on a
five-color scale. The move came on
March 17 when President Bush com
pleted his speech giving Saddam
Hussein and his two sons 48 hours to
leave Iraq or face a U.S.-led invasion.
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden,
Iraqi officials and other Muslim
extremists have sought to make the war
a pretext for attacks on America,
renewing calls for a jihad, or holy war.
But so far, no attacks on American
soil have occurred and no evidence of
plans to conduct terrorism have been
uncovered. Still, law enforcement offi
cials said it makes sense to keep gov
ernment at a heightened state of vigi
lance while hostilities continue.
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who might try to harm Amenc
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