Cancer to kill not only people but economies
That is if a focused cancer-controlled health care policy is not put in place.
Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said governments in Southeast Asia must address the cancer epidemic to avoid economic disruption.
A Bloomberg report quoted him as saying in Singapore there will be “ill-prepared health systems, eventually undermining the region’s economy.”
In Southeast Asia 500,000 people a year are killed by cancer.
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