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Cancer Cases Could Surge 67% Worldwide by 2050
Posted on 8 September, 2026 by Mehrdad Fathi
The numbers are stark. In 2024, nearly 21 million people were diagnosed with cancer globally, and 9.8 million died from the disease. Now cases will reach 34 million by 2050 — a 67% increase driven almost entirely by population growth and aging, before any changes in risk factor exposure are factored in.
For anyone working at the intersection of oncology, public health, or life sciences, this report lands as both a warning and a challenge.
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15 March, 2024Today In History
Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 26 October.
- 1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
- Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
- Telegraph service inaugurated in US (end of Pony Express)
- Soccer rules standardized; rugby starts as a separate game.
- Shootout at the OK corral in Tombstone Az
- Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay.
- US Savings Bonds go on sale
- Pres Truman increases minimum wage - from 40 cents to 75 cents.
- International Atomic Energy Agency established
- Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
- PanAm flies the 1st transAtlantic jet trip - NY to Paris.
- Soyuz 3 is launched
- Doonesbury comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers.
- UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
- Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
- according to South Africa Transkei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside of South Africa.
- Fifth & Final test of the Space Shuttle Enterprise
- S Korean Pres Park Chung-hee is assassinated.
- St. Vincent & the Grenadines gains independence from Britain.
- Baby Fae gets a baboon heart in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda CA. She will live for 21 days with the animal heart.
- head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm. assassinated by death squads.