{"id":39172,"date":"2026-07-09T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39172"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T12:54:55","slug":"cancer-taking-heavy-global-toll-who","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/cancer-taking-heavy-global-toll-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer taking heavy global toll: WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) says millions of people are facing physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The disease claims more than 26 000 lives every day.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">WHO estimates 20. 6 million new cases and close to ten million deaths annually.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Cancer remains the second leading cause of death globally, after cardiovascular disease.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/sabc-plus.com\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/zaf01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsabc-plus.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CMalobolaBM%40sabc.co.za%7Cc8170548bc5247b4441f08deddb45237%7C17694f0c19394195913e8542ec6bea22%7C0%7C0%7C639191963703842555%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=sjV9cD6ZSZmHkcqv2lFP05s6nYVwssFdrdluXdkuMKk%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-outlook-id=\"01fc983c-c5e3-4d96-aa4d-c5974c1a46d8\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBTAA7\" data-imagetype=\"External\" data-imageproxyendpoint=\"\/actions\/ei\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15378,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39172","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"WHO says millions of people are facing financial toll of cancer","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39173,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39172\/revisions\/39173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}