Sympatico / MSN : News : CTV.ca: "Aging population to set off cancer crisis
CTV.ca News Staff
While survival rates for many major cancers continue to improve, Canada's aging baby-boomers and the growing population are creating a cancer crisis, according to the Canadian Cancer Society.
In its 2005 cancer statistics, released Tuesday, the Canadian Cancer Society projects that there will be 149,000 new cases of cancer diagnosed this year and 69,500 people will died of the disease in 2005. That is 3,500 more new cases and 1,200 deaths over last year."
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