The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs (www.monographs.iarc.fr) identify environmental and occupational causes of human cancer. Sometimes called the WHO “Encyclopedia of ...

Cancers occurring in childhood and adolescence differ markedly from cancers in adults in their incidence and tumor characteristics. Worldwide, the average annual incidence in children aged less than ...

The oldest known hominid malignant tumor was found in Homo erectus, or Australopithecus, by Louis Leakey in 1932. The Egyptians blamed cancer on the gods. Ancient Egyptian scrolls describe eight cases ...

Tobacco use is the largest preventable cancer risk factor. While global cigarette consumption and overall prevalence have been declining recently, success has been uneven. In countries with vigorous ...

Globally, there were an estimated 2.1 million lung cancer cases and 1.8 million deaths in 2018. Incidence and mortality rates vary 20-fold between regions. (Figure 1) The variation is similarly large ...

Breast cancer is the leading cancer type in females in most countries in the world in 2018. (Map 1) About one in twenty females will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lifetime, ...

Cancer results in economic burden for patients, healthcare systems, and countries due to healthcare spending, and productivity losses from morbidity and premature mortality. Economic analyses can ...

About 1.3 million new cancer cases and 666,000 cancer deaths were estimated to have occurred in 2018 in Latin America and the Caribbean. The five most common cancers in 2018 were female breast ...

Cancer management starts with obtaining a valid diagnosis. However, lack of diagnostic imaging and pathologists are major barriers to receipt of high-quality oncologic care in many parts of the world.

The number of cancer survivors is rising worldwide, propelled by advances in early detection and treatment and the aging of the world’s population. In 2018, there were approximately 43.8 million ...

Some of the countries with the highest male smoking prevalence, such as China, Russia, and Indonesia, are also among the world's most populous. Tweet Share Share figure Cigarette and e-cigarette use ( ...

Worldwide, there were an estimated 18.1 million cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018 (including non-melanoma skin cancers), with one in four men and one in five women developing the disease, ...