Despite advances in cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment, the number of new cancer cases worldwide is expected to increase 70% over the next 20 years, growing from around 14 million in 2012 to more than 22 million, according to the latest statistics from the World Health Organization. In 2012, roughly 32.6 million people were living with cancer within five years of diagnosis and there were 8.2 million cancer-related deaths.
While much of the recent news in cancer treatment has focused on immunotherapy and other cutting-edge technologies, radiation therapy, surgery and chemotherapy, alone or in combination, remain the most common...