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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 1.3 million new cancer cases and 666,000 cancer deaths were estimated to have occurred in 2018 in Latin America and the Caribbean. The five most common cancers in 2018 were female breast ...

In 2011, the global community adopted the Global Action Plan (GAP) for the prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs). The GAP urged countries to set national targets to address ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of the countries with the highest male smoking prevalence, such as China, Russia, and Indonesia, are also among the world's most populous. Tweet Share Share figure Cigarette and e-cigarette use ( ...

Overall improvements in early detection and treatment have greatly improved average survival of cancer patients worldwide over the past several decades, yet prognosis still varies markedly depending ...

Worldwide, there were an estimated 18.1 million cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018 (including non-melanoma skin cancers), with one in four men and one in five women developing the disease, ...

Limiting carcinogenic exposures in the environment and in the workplace provides an opportunity to reduce the cancer burden, particularly for workers with unacceptably high exposures. Outdoor air ...