Aging Population Is Causing Major Increase In Cancer Burden, Warn Experts

... Between 2004 and 2006, the number of new cases of cancer diagnosed each year in Europe has increased by 300,000 according to new estimates in a report by Peter Boyle in Annals of Oncology. Boyle and colleagues, from IARC, estimate that in 2006 there were 3.2 million new cases of cancer (up from 2.9 million in 2004) and 1.7 million deaths from the disease in the whole of Europe. ...