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- cancer is actually a collective term for over a hundred different diseases characterised by invasive, uncontrolled cell growth?
- a third of the 10 million new cases of cancer diagnosed each year worldwide could be prevented, and another third cured, if they were detected and treated earlier?
- according to WHO estimates, in the next twenty years there will be 10 million deaths from cancer and 15 million new cases of cancer each year?
- cancer is responsible for 12% of all deaths worldwide?
- in the year 2000 more than 1.2 million cases of breast cancer were diagnosed worldwide?
- in the year 1990 the gene for hereditary breast cancer (BRCA1) was discovered (on chromosome 17)?
- all men over the age of 50 should have their prostate checked once a year?
- one of the most notable achievements of modern medicine is the development of specific diagnostic tests that can characterise individual tumours, thereby permitting customised therapy?
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