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- According to the report, the worldwide cancer burden is expected to increase, despite many cancers being preventable. Are we failing in our efforts to confront cancer?
- Many developing nations are struggling against serious disease threats ranging from malaria to HIV to childhood diarrhea. What priority should cancer prevention take in such a context?
- As cancer is often related to individual behaviors, such as exercise and eating habits, how important is it that healthy behaviors begin in early childhood?
- The report notes that “market economies are not designed to protect public health.” However, the notion of the government taking such action makes many nervous. How do you build the case for such actions among the public?
- Public health workers have reaped sizable cancer prevention successes, especially in regard to tobacco use, and yet public health isn’t as closely linked to cancer prevention in the public’s eye as traditional medical care. How can public health workers go about changing this perception?
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