India, Aug. 3 -- Cancer's deadly sweep is getting wider. Its tag of being "a disease of the affluent" and of "rich countries" is being shredded, with the burden rising among the most disadvantaged countries and communities, and early in life. Every fifth person in the world will be inflicted by cancer in their lifetime. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) say in a new report that 92 per cent of the global population will either be diagnosed with cancer or have a close family member do so. Increasingly, new modifiable risks including tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy diets, high body mass index, air pollution and harmful workplace or environmental exposures, are driving the cancer epidem...