The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that around one-third of cancer deaths are preventable, through education programmes, better detection and treatment.<br /><br />As a result, the disease hits hardest in developing countries, where such programmes are rudimentary, if they exist at all.<br /><br />Experts say this "silent pandemic" will overwhelm health services already struggling under the burden of other diseases.<br /><br />Each year cancer kills more people than HIV, Aids, tuberculosis and malaria combined.<br /><br />The number of global cancer deaths is projected to increase by 45 per cent by 2030 (from 7.9 million in 2007 to a projected 11.5 million deaths), influenced in part by an increasing and ageing global population.<br /><br />More than 7.6 million lives were lost last year the equivalent death toll to last month's earthquake in Haiti happening every week.<br /><br />The number of cases are expected to double in the next 10 years, yet only five per cent of global resources for cancer are spent in the developing world.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports on how Kenya struggles to treat and cope with the surge in cancer patients.
