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Published online 5 December 2007 | Nature 450, 772-773 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450772c
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Asia plans first cancer network
Regional initiative will coordinate data sharing and epidemiology.
Cancer researchers from around Asia met in Nanjing, China, last month to hammer out plans for a regional network to coordinate epidemiology data and prevention.
The network would gather data from cancer registries in countries from the Philippines to Turkey — an area that has two-thirds of the world's population and more than half of its 7.
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Good job! This is really what we need to improve the health condition of Asian people in the future. I hope after I got my Ph.D. in the US, I will be able to come back and work on this.