Staggering Rise in New Cancer Cases Projected in 2050  

FILE - A doctor attends to cancer patients at a cancer treatment center in Sana'a, Yemen, Feb. 11, 2017. FILE - A physician uses a CT scanner to screen a patient for lung cancer at Southern New Hampshire Medical Center in Nashua, N.H., June 3, 2010.

New cancer cases are projected to rise by 77% to more than 35 million in 2050 from an estimated 20 million new cases and 9.7 million deaths in 2022, according to new data released Thursday by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).