A Disease of Inequality: WHO Projects 35 Million Annual Cancer Cases by 2050

A new global assessment forecasts a doubling of cancer diagnoses within decades, exposing a lethal chasm in survival rates between wealthy and poor nations.

The world is on track to see annual cancer cases double to 35 million by 2050, a surge that will touch nearly every household on the planet unless governments confront both rising risk factors and the lethal disparities that define modern medicine. That is the central finding of a World Health Organization report released this week, a document that frames the coming crisis not merely as a matter of biology, but as a reckoning with structural inequality. [1]

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