AUDIO from Medialink: Cancer's Global Burden.Despite our advances in preventing and treating cancer, the disease continues to kill at an alarming rate. It is responsible for more than 12 percent of all deaths worldwide every year. This week in Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. , the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, is doing something never done before: bringing together more than 5,000 global cancer and tobacco leaders from two international conferences in one location to address the global cancer and tobacco burden. Listen to this report at: http://media.medialink Medialink is a media representation company based in Ireland. Originally set up in 1989 the company has worked with many of the UK and Ireland's newspaper and magazine publishers. .com/WebNR.aspx?story=32187 Registered journalists can access video, audio, text, graphics and photos for free and unrestricted use at http://media.medialink.com. |
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