The WHO predicts that cancer cases will grow 77% by 2050. The organization warns of inequalities in treatment between countries, with radical differences in the prognosis in breast or cervical tumors.
The WHO interprets that the resurgence of lung cancer as the one that causes the most deaths is due to tobacco use in Asia. In countries with a high Human Development Index (HDI), one in 12 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, but only one in 71 will die from it. However, in countries with low HDI, although one in 27 will receive this diagnosis, one in 48 will die. This is the case of cervical cancer, which is the eighth most common cancer in the world.