The Third Plenary session of the Boao Forum for Asia Global Health Forum continued yesterday. A reporter from Beijing Youth Daily was informed at the sub-forum of "Achieving Health for All -- Promoting early screening of cancer diseases to achieve health equity" held yesterday morning that through the cancer screening project, China has formed a set of cancer screening models suitable for the Chinese population, and cancer control has achieved remarkable results. According to the set goal, by 2030, The overall 5-year survival rate for cancer would reach 46.6%.

In the points on the BBS, the national cancer center early detection of cancer treated early wan-qing Chen, director of the office, the burden of cancer more and more serious, not just China, worldwide, by 2050, the global new cases of cancer will increase by 77%, so the burden of cancer is the world's widespread problems. "According to the latest data in China this year, new cases of cancer each year is 4.82 million, 2.57 million deaths. With the aging trend, the overall incidence and mortality of cancer have been increasing in recent years. As more medical technology including the use of some new drugs and treatment costs rising speed is fast, the cost of cancer each year has more than 300 billion, this is our country social economy brings serious burden."

According to the plan, by 2030, cancer screening and early detection in our country is expected to significantly enhance its capability of treated early, standardize the steadily improving diagnosis and treatment, cancer incidence, mortality, contained the rising trend, the overall 5-year survival rate for cancer would reach 46.6%, patients to effectively control the disease burden.