Another Asia growth story: cancer

Changing lifestyles and smoking are likely to kill 1 billion people this century, most of them in Asia, but a new scientific initiative aims to find cures.

Asia’s remarkable growth story over the past few decades has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and transformed lives, opportunity sets and economic and political fortunes. But among its downsides is a growing cancer epidemic.

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