Cancer deaths fall, but prevention still lags behind

Although overall mortality from cancer is decreasing in the European Union, its incidence increased by almost 20%, from 2.1 million new cases in 2002 to 2.5 million in 2008, says a special issue [1] of the European Journal of Cancer (the official journal of ECCO - the European CanCer Organisation) on cancer prevention, published today.

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