Edited by
M.A. Hayat

2009

Methods of Cancer Diagnosis,
Therapy, and Prognosis

Each year, tens of millions of people are diagnosed worldwide with cancer, and more than half of these patients eventually die from this disease. The severity of the burden of cancer becomes really clear by knowing that there were ∼ 10, 862, 496 new cancer cases (excluding skin cancer) in the world in 2002, and the number of deaths caused by this disease in the same year was ∼ 6,723,887 (GLOBOCAN).