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The world cancer count for 2008: about 12.7 million new cases, with more than half of cases and almost two thirds of deaths already occurring in the economically developing world, breast cancer the most common cancer in women and lung cancer in men.
Jemal, Bray and colleagues summarised the GLOBOCAN 2008 estimates for the American Cancer Society. They reported about 12.7 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths in 2008, of which 56% of cases and 64% of deaths occurred in the economically developing world. Breast cancer was the most frequently diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer death in women; lung cancer held both positions in men. The paper stressed that the burden was shifting to lower-income countries and that much of it was preventable through tobacco control, vaccination and early detection.
For years the most cited paper in oncology, it fixed the picture of cancer as a growing problem of developing countries and is the baseline against which the 2012, 2018, 2020 and 2022 GLOBOCAN releases show the burden rising.
Shares Torre 2015: Global cancer statistics, 2012, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
Shares Freddie Bray, Torre 2015: Global cancer statistics, 2012, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality.
Shares Freddie Bray, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
Shares Freddie Bray, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Non-small-cell lung cancer.