title: The problem with cancer.
abstract: There are no face masks against cancer. No trail of cases to hunt down, no one set of symptoms, no media blitz, no ready cure. Epi early warning systems, however fine-tuned and high-tech, are no match for this disease, which affects 12 million more people each year and kills nearly 8 million. The problem with cancer, as with all chronic diseases in the global pandemic, is that it challenges all of us-individuals, professionals, health systems, governments and societies at large-to make fundamental changes. Why? Because at the heart of cancer prevention and control, repeated in forum after forum, is achieving healthier living. And for a world in which poorer countries and people will soon account for three-fourths of cancer deaths, the heart of the matter is also achieving healthier living for all.