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More people in poor countries die from cancer than from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. Joanne Silberner looks at the human toll of cancer, and possible solutions.

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Pulitzer Center grantee Joanne Silberner and the Pulitzer Center's Health Projects Director speak at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine about Silberner's series on global cancer.