A report published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians found that an estimated 18.1 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed globally in 2018, and 9.6 million cancer-related mortalities will occur. The report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also found that one in five men and one in six women worldwide will develop cancer during their lifetime, and one in eight men and one in 11 women will die from cancer.
The GLOBOCAN 2018 database is part of the IARC Global Cancer Observatory and provides estimates of cancer incidence and mortality for 36 types of cancer in 185 countries.
Global #cancer prediction for 2018- 18 million will be diagnosed and the current treatments can not save half of them. Long road ahead for cancer research.https://t.co/6QtZorRBNH pic.twitter.com/d2mBmUUDoI
— Satchin Panda (@SatchinPanda) September 16, 2018
The data indicate that the total number of people who are alive within 5 years of diagnosis is an estimated 43.8 million.
Lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer (11.6% of the total cases) and the leading cause of cancer death (18.4% of the total cancer deaths) in both women and men. It is followed by female breast cancer (11.6%), prostate cancer (7.1%), and colorectal cancer (CRC; 6.1%) for incidence and CRC (9.2%), stomach cancer (8.2%), and liver cancer (8.2%) for mortality.
Global Cancer Statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries – Bray – – CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians – Wiley Online Library https://t.co/Dy6J1nLqza
— Philip McCarthy (@PLMcCarthyMD) September 15, 2018
The researchers estimate that almost half of all cases and more than half of related deaths will occur in Asia, as 60% of the global population resides on that continent. Europe accounts for 23.4% of the total number of global cases and 20.3% of cancer-related mortality, while comprising just 9% of the total population. The Americas account for 13.3% of the global population; the associated cancer incidence and related mortality are 21% and 14.4%, respectively.
The incidence rate for all cancers combined was about 20% higher in men (age‐standardized rate [ASR] = 218.6/100,000 person-years) compared with women (ASR = 182.6/100,000).
Lung cancer incidence is higher in young women.
Researchers observe trends in cancer incidence in patients living with HIV.
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