Hundreds of materials, both man-made and natural, were recognized as causes of cancer (carcinogens). X-ray exposure led to skin cancer on the hand of a lab technician. Within a decade, many more ...

Cancers occurring in childhood and adolescence differ markedly from cancers in adults in their incidence and tumor characteristics. Worldwide, the average annual incidence in children aged less than ...

The number of cancer survivors is rising worldwide, propelled by advances in early detection and treatment and the aging of the world’s population. In 2018, there were approximately 43.8 million ...

Breast cancer is the leading cancer type in females in most countries in the world in 2018. (Map 1) About one in twenty females will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lifetime, ...

Cancer results in economic burden for patients, healthcare systems, and countries due to healthcare spending, and productivity losses from morbidity and premature mortality. Economic analyses can ...

Globally, there were an estimated 2.1 million lung cancer cases and 1.8 million deaths in 2018. Incidence and mortality rates vary 20-fold between regions. (Figure 1) The variation is similarly large ...

Over one-third of all cervical cancer deaths globally occur in sub-Saharan Africa, though the region represents only 14% of the world female population. Tweet The most common cancers in men are ...

The oldest known hominid malignant tumor was found in Homo erectus, or Australopithecus, by Louis Leakey in 1932. The Egyptians blamed cancer on the gods. Ancient Egyptian scrolls describe eight cases ...

There are more than 370 million Indigenous people spanning at least 70 countries worldwide. Indigenous peoples generally face disadvantage and have worse health than non-Indigenous people. Data ...

Detection of some cancers at an early stage combined with prompt treatment permits less aggressive treatment, leading to a better quality of life of the patient, and is associated with significantly ...

Tobacco use, infectious agents, unhealthy diet, excess body weight, physical inactivity, and alcohol consumption account for the majority of cancer deaths caused by known risk factors. Smoking causes ...

Reliable cancer data are essential for planning and monitoring the effectiveness of cancer control programs, for examining cancer care delivery patterns, and other types of research. Population-based ...