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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the transition from infection-related cancers to lifestyle-related cancers in many low- and middle-income countries is vital for planning tailored cancer control programs to reduce the ...