{"entity":{"id":"paper-fitzmaurice-gbd-cancer-2015-jamaoncol-2017","kind":"paper","name":"Fitzmaurice 2017: the Global Burden of Disease estimate of cancer in 2015","aka":[],"tldr":"The Global Burden of Disease collaboration's count for 2015: about 17.5 million new cancer cases worldwide, with cases rising by a third over the previous decade mostly because populations were growing and ageing, and lung cancer the largest cause of years of life lost to cancer.","summary":"The Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration estimated incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life-years for 32 cancer groups in 195 countries for 2015 and the trend since 2005. It counted about 17.5 million cases and 8.7 million deaths. Cases increased by 33% between 2005 and 2015, of which most was attributable to population ageing and growth rather than to rising age-specific rates. Tracheal, bronchus and lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer disability-adjusted life-years globally.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Full text (DOI)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5688"},{"label":"GBD results tool","url":"https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-results/"}],"tags":[],"related":["paper-bray-globocan-2018-cacancer-2018","paper-sung-globocan-2020-cacancer-2021"],"cancers":["nsclc"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":["incidence-vs-prevalence","mortality"],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"JAMA Oncology","year":2017,"doi":"10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5688","authors":"Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration; Fitzmaurice C, Allen C, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["About 17.5 million cancer cases and 8.7 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2015.","Cases rose 33% from 2005 to 2015: about 16% from population ageing, 13% from population growth and 4% from changing age-specific rates.","Lung cancer was the leading cause of cancer disability-adjusted life-years; cancer was the second leading cause of death worldwide."],"whatItMeans":"GBD is the other major global cancer count alongside GLOBOCAN, using different methods, and its burden measures in years of life lost make the case that cancer control is largely a problem of ageing populations in middle-income countries.","caveats":["Modelled estimates with wide uncertainty where registry data are sparse.","GBD and GLOBOCAN figures differ because of methods, so they should not be mixed in one comparison."],"changedPractice":false},"route":"/key-papers/paper-fitzmaurice-gbd-cancer-2015-jamaoncol-2017/","neighbours":{"paper":[{"id":"paper-bray-globocan-2018-cacancer-2018","kind":"paper","name":"Bray 2018: GLOBOCAN 2018, worldwide incidence and mortality for 36 cancers","route":"/key-papers/paper-bray-globocan-2018-cacancer-2018/"},{"id":"paper-sung-globocan-2020-cacancer-2021","kind":"paper","name":"Sung 2021: GLOBOCAN 2020, the year breast cancer overtook lung cancer as the most diagnosed cancer","route":"/key-papers/paper-sung-globocan-2020-cacancer-2021/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"nsclc","kind":"cancer","name":"Non-small-cell lung cancer","route":"/cancers/nsclc/"}],"term":[{"id":"incidence-vs-prevalence","kind":"term","name":"Incidence versus prevalence","route":"/terms/incidence-vs-prevalence/"},{"id":"mortality","kind":"term","name":"Mortality","route":"/terms/mortality/"}],"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}]}}