Improving women's health: advances, failures and cancer genome prospects.

摘要

Cancer is a major health problem. Each year over 1,150,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer and 500,000 women are diagnosed worldwide with cervix uteri cancer followed by cancer sites in the colorectum, lung, ovary and corpus uteri [l]. A further increase in incidence and mortality rates is estimated for the next decade [2]. Global cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020 and, according to the World Cancer Report, cancer is predicted to overtake heart disease as the world's leading cause of mortality [101].