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Evening Standard
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Maryam Kara

‘Feminist approach’ to cancer could save 800,000 women’s lives every year, say health experts

Health experts have said 800,000 deaths of women resulting from cancer could be averted each year across the globe with a “feminist approach.”

A report in medical journal the Lancet discovered that in countries ranked as low on the Human Development Index, 72 per cent of deaths in women with cancer were premature.

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