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This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).
The new global statistics come just days after the American Cancer Society (ACS) released its 2024 cancer forecast earlier this month. The organization anticipates new cancer diagnoses to surpass ...
In 2019, Our World in Data won the Lovie Award, a European web award, [11] and was one of three nonprofit organizations in Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort. [12] [13] Beginning in 2020, Our World in Data added an emphasis on publishing global data and research on the COVID-19 pandemic:
Earlier this year, a report by the American Cancer Society found that population growth and aging are key drivers of the size of the world’s cancer burden, with the global population of about 8 ...
For example, various Global Burden of Disease Studies investigate such factors and quantify recent developments – one such systematic analysis analyzed the (non)progress on cancer and its causes during the 2010–19-decade, indicating that 2019, ~44% of all cancer deaths – or ~4.5 M deaths or ~105 million lost disability-adjusted life years ...
The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is a public health observatory established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to share data on global health, including statistics by country and information about specific diseases and health measures. [1] The GHO tracks important information like "Response to the Millennium Development Goals". [2]
The National Institute of Health (NIH) attributes the increase in the 5-year relative survival of prostate cancer (from 69% in the 1970s to 100% in 2006) to screening and diagnosis and due to the fact that men that participate in screening tend to be healthier and live longer than the average man and testing techniques that are able to detect ...
The United States has the highest annual incidence rates of breast cancer in the world; 128.6 per 100,000 in whites and 112.6 per 100,000 among African Americans. [ 10 ] [ 13 ] It is the second-most common cancer (after skin cancer) and the second-most common cause of cancer death (after lung cancer) in women. [ 10 ]