Fight against cancer: testing a new vaccine and some data

Here, on the occasion of the World Day against cancer, some information to know about this type of disease that can affect any part of the body.

-In France, the "Regional University Hospital (CHU) de Besançon announced Monday experimentation on patients of a new anticancer therapeutic vaccine, in June 2015. It will be tested over a period of approximately three years of 54 patients with lung cancer. Its universal character could allow it to be used to fight against different types of cancers. " (Source: AFP)

- University researchers estimate that the UK is "a special stage in history" and may target the bold ambition to eradicate cancer mortality for the population under 80 years old during the twenty to thirty coming years. " (Source: The Independent)

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- "Nearly half of cancers can be avoided in the world." (Source: WHO)

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- "Increase spending can certainly improve results in the fight against cancer, but there are affordable strategies, such as increasing tobacco taxation." (Source: International Union Against Cancer)

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- Cancer affects about 355,000 people each year in France and is 148,000 dead these figures date from 2012. (AFP)

- "One in two people will develop cancer, but the main reason is the increase in longevity."

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- "The cancer mortality is decreasing among young people."

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- "Cancer is the disease that is most afraid to French and a large majority of them feel they have a probability" important "to suffer one day, according to a survey released Monday by the Arc Foundation. (Source: AFP)

- "The French" remain very pessimistic about the possibility of curing cancer. " (...) A majority (55%) think they can cure a cancer three, while in reality we now cure "more than one cancer in two." (Same)