Director of IARC: We need to act now to stop cancer

“In twenty years’ time we will see 20 million new cases of cancer every year”, says Dr. Chris Wild, the director of the WHO International Agency for Cancer Research, (IARC) on his visit to Finland. The increase from today’s 12.5 million new cases every year is mainly being driven by population growth and ageing. The growing cancer incidence will however hit lower income countries harder, where the health services are least-equipped to deal with the growing burden. Read more here.