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FACTBOX-Cancer in developing countries

Aug 16 (Reuters) - Following are some facts about cancer in low- and middle-income countries.

Cancer kills more people each year in low- and middle-income countries than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

More than half of all new cancer cases and almost two-thirds of cancer deaths in 2008 occurred in low- and middle-income countries.

Only about 5 percent of global resources for cancer are spent in developing countries.

Experts estimate 75 percent of all those who get cancer in developing nations will die of it, compared with 46 percent of cancer patients in high-income countries.

Around 80 percent of cancer patients in the poorer regions of the world are not seen until their disease is advanced.

More than 85 percent of global deaths from cervical cancer occur in the developing world, where it is the leading cause of cancer death among women.

SOURCES: Reuters/GTF.CCC/CanTreat International (Reporting by Kate Kelland, editing by Janet Lawrence)

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