Lung cancer (all types) · Countries and centres

Cases by country

Cases by country · GLOBOCAN 2022

Site: Trachea, bronchus and lung. World: 2,480,675 new cases a year.

#	Country	New cases	Incidence ASR
1	China	1,060,584	40.8
2	United States of America	226,033	31.9
3	Japan	136,723	30.5
4	India	81,748	5.8
5	Russian Federation	70,362	26.0
6	Germany	62,025	28.1
7	United Kingdom	50,700	30.1
8	France (metropolitan)	49,613	35.9
9	Brazil	44,213	14.6
10	Italy	43,808	24.6

The family page for every type of lung cancer; GLOBOCAN reports the site as one, without a histological split.

Show deaths by countryGLOBOCAN's estimated deaths for the same countries, for readers who want them.

Country-level death counts mix every stage, subtype and year of diagnosis, and reflect access to screening and treatment as much as the disease. Survival differs by stage, subtype and year; the cancer page above leads with what can be done.

#	Country	New cases	Deaths
1	China	1,060,584	733,291
2	United States of America	226,033	127,653
3	Japan	136,723	83,243
4	India	81,748	75,031
5	Russian Federation	70,362	51,887
6	Germany	62,025	47,731
7	United Kingdom	50,700	35,394
8	France (metropolitan)	49,613	36,876
9	Brazil	44,213	38,292
10	Italy	43,808	35,668

World: 2,480,675 new cases and 1,817,469 deaths a year (GLOBOCAN 2022).

Expert centres

Where the expertise is

Expert centres

256 centres in 52 countries · 14 with a trial for this cancer on record · second-opinion finder →

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256 centres


Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	5,120	95,936	Comprehensive genomic profiling CAR-T cell therapy Digital pathology & AI	#1
MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	6,742	95,559	CAR-NK & CAR-macrophage Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems Gamma Knife +2	#2
Samsung Medical Center Seoul · hospital Programme: Lung cancer trials	South Korea	none recorded	0	1,319	17,459	Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems Gamma Knife Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)	#3
Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN · hospital	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	4,572	48,202	Carbon-ion therapy Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems Gamma Knife +1	#5
Gustave Roussy Villejuif · cancer center	France	none recorded	0	1,862	31,707	ZAP-X gyroscopic radiosurgery Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)	#6
The Royal Marsden London · cancer center	United Kingdom	none recorded	0	1,030	18,019	MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy PARP inhibitors	#7
Seoul National University Hospital Seoul · hospital Programme: Lung cancer	South Korea	none recorded	0	1,612	26,269	Gamma Knife Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)	#8
Johns Hopkins Hospital / Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Baltimore · cancer center	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	2,962	42,161	Multi-cancer early detection (MCED)Liquid biopsy (ctDNA)Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems +2	#10
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin · university	Germany	none recorded	0	1,567	18,047	Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems CyberKnife robotic radiosurgery Stereotactic radiosurgery (Gamma Knife, CyberKnife, linac SRS)	#12
National Cancer Center Hospital Tokyo · government	Japan	none recorded	0	1,599	21,937	none recorded	#13
Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center Boston · cancer center Programme: Lung cancer genomics	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	4,333	74,896	none recorded	#15
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Boston · hospital Programme: Targeted therapy (lung)	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	3,584	55,693	Proton therapy Small-molecule kinase inhibitors Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems Gamma Knife +1	#16
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute Cleveland · hospital	United States	NCI comprehensive	0	2,275	29,951	Off-the-shelf cancer vaccines Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems Gamma Knife +1	#20
Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Seoul · hospital	South Korea	none recorded	0	820	10,449	Carbon-ion therapy Robotic & minimally invasive surgery Carbon-ion synchrotrons and facilities Gamma Knife +1	#22
The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Manchester · cancer center	United Kingdom	none recorded	2	105	2,179	Proton therapy Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy TomoTherapy and Radixact (helical radiotherapy)	#23

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These are the things we can measure; they are not a ranking of quality. Each column is a field on the institution record or a count over what OnCo has linked; a centre that treats many patients with Lung cancer but is thinly recorded here will look small.

Not known: OnCo holds no case-volume or outcome figures for centres, so none are shown. Where a national audit or registry publishes them, the centre's page links to it. Default order: Newsweek rank, then trials for this cancer, then research output.

Seeking a second opinion: ask your oncologist for a referral to a high-volume centre; most accept records and pathology by mail or telehealth. In the US, use the NCI's Find a Cancer Center tool or the nonprofit Cancer Commons, which navigates options for advanced cancers at no cost. The second-opinion finder explains how referral works in your country.

Expert centres named on the types of this cancer

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72 centres are named on one of the types below rather than on Lung cancer (all types) itself. Grouped by the type that holds them; the full table for each sits on that type's page.

Non-small-cell lung cancer69

Auckland City Hospital / Te Pūriri o Te Ora Cancer and Blood Service Cancer Council Australia Cancer Grand Challenges Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA)Jiangsu Cancer Hospital Leicester Cancer Research Centre / University Hospitals of Leicester National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)Shizuoka Cancer Center and 61 more →

Small-cell lung cancer15

Heidelberg University Hospital / NCT / DKFZ Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest (ICO)QST Hospital (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)Tel Aviv University Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital / University of the Witwatersrand Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 Hamad Medical Corporation / National Center for Cancer Care and Research Juravinski Cancer Centre / Escarpment Cancer Research Institute and 7 more →

Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung14

Auckland City Hospital / Te Pūriri o Te Ora Cancer and Blood Service Cancer Council Australia Cancer Grand Challenges Instituto Nacional de Câncer (INCA)Jiangsu Cancer Hospital Leicester Cancer Research Centre / University Hospitals of Leicester National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)Shizuoka Cancer Center and 6 more →