Cancer and its impact on public health

Abstract

This article will try to mention the impact of cancer on society, that assessed by the incidence and mortality rate as reported by GLOBANCAN 2012, also mention the modifiable risk factors for this disease, and him behavior at 2020, showing global and national strategies to combat its complications, achieving an analysis of the importance of further work on this issue, emphasizing those in modifiable factors, early detection and treatment considering that despite the technological and health advances strategies remains a major health problem.[Cajamarca Barón JH. Cancer and its impact on public health. MedUNAB 2014; 17(1):41-45].