Global economic downturn linked with at least 260,000 excess cancer deaths

(Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) The economic crisis of 2008-10, and the rise in unemployment that accompanied it, was associated with more than 260,000 excess cancer-related deaths -- including many considered treatable -- within the Organization for Economic Development, according to a Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Imperial College London, and Oxford University study. The researchers found that excess cancer burden was mitigated in countries with universal health coverage and in those that increased health care spending.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news