Almost 20 million new cancer cases reported globally in 2022. What about Canada?
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Lung cancer was the most common form of the disease in 2022, accounting for 12 per cent of total new cases worldwide, according to the WHO.
An estimated 20 million new cancer cases and close to 10 million deaths were reported globally in 2022, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Lung cancer was the most common form of the disease that year, accounting for 12.4 per cent of total new cases worldwide, the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) reported Thursday.
Lung cancer was also the deadliest type of cancer, resulting in 1.8 million deaths worldwide, which accounted for 18.7 per cent of total cancer deaths.
Breast cancer was the second most prevalent form of cancer, with 2.3 million cases, followed by colorectal cancer (1.9 million cases) and prostate cancer (1.5 million cases), the WHO estimates, which were released ahead of World Cancer Day on Feb. 4, showed.
The data was collected from 185 countries.
“The magnitude of cancer certainly is increasing,” said Dr. Freddie Bray, branch head of cancer surveillance at IARC, during a news conference on Tuesday.
The WHO is predicting that more than 35 million new cancer cases will be detected in 2050. That is a 77 per cent increase from 2022.
The number of new cancer deaths is projected to reach 18.5 million by 2050.
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