Cancer Is the Top Economic Killer

Cancer is the economic killer in the world and might be also a main cause of death! The American Cancer Society is going to present the new report in China on August 19, 2010. The report indicates the cancer affecting our life and causing death at most than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases. The economic lost causing from the censer is about USD 895 billion in 2008. That is in terms of disability and years of life lost, but not the cost of treating the disease. The World Health Organization said that cancer would overtake heart disease this year as the leading cause of death. About 7 million people died of cancer in 2008, and about 12 million new cases are diagnosed each year.