{"id":18066,"date":"2024-02-04T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18066"},"modified":"2024-02-04T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:55:00","slug":"who-warns-of-rapid-increase-in-cancer-patients-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/who-warns-of-rapid-increase-in-cancer-patients-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO warns of rapid increase in cancer patients by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) &#8211; On World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report forecasting a rapid increase in the number of people affected by cancer globally by 2050.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The organization said in a report on Sunday, that cancer cases are expected to surge by 77% to reach 35 million cases in 2050.<\/p>\n<p>According to WHO, factors such as obesity, air pollution, alcohol and tobacco use, along with exposure to cancer risks, contribute significantly to the rising incidence of this disease worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The report further highlights that highly developed countries will witness the largest absolute increase in cancer cases over the next 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>February 4 marks World Cancer Day, a day dedicated to programs aimed at enhancing cancer awareness, promoting prevention, and advocating for the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.<\/p>\n<h6><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) &#8211; On World Cancer Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a report forecasting a rapid increase in the number of people affected by cancer globally by 2050.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,194,218,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-world","category-health","category-headline"],"views":59,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18068,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions\/18068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}