Cancer rates are skyrocketing in parts of the developing world as Southern nations battle to keep infections under control, according to a study published yesterday.
The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, looked at global cancer incidence and mortality rates up until 2012. A team led by Lindsey Torre, an epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, United States, found that low- to middle income countries had the highest rates of infection-related cancers in the world.