Exposures to numerous potentially modifiable risk factors for cancer vary substantially across and within countries and are often associated with socioeconomic status. Cancer is the second leading ...

Effective interventions across the cancer continuum can reduce the burden and suffering from cancer and save millions of lives worldwide.

Cancer has shaped human history for millennia, from ancient civilizations recognizing its presence to modern breakthroughs transforming treatment and survival. This timeline traces cancer’s journey ...

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in almost all LAC countries, though cervical cancer leads in Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador in Central America and in Bolivia and Peru ...

Cancer is the leading cause of premature death in North America. An estimated 2.1 million new cancer cases and 701,000 cancer deaths occur in North America each year. The region contributes almost ...

Footnote Indigenous populations for each country: Australia - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (2018-2019), USA – American Indian and Alaskan Native (2022), Canada - Aboriginal (First Nations, ...

Climate change impacts cancer control in multiple ways (Figure 11.1). First, human activities cause climate change and increase exposures to cancer-causing agents. For example, extraction, processing, ...

Footnote The fertility rate, expressed as the number of children per woman, is based on age-specific fertility rates in a given year.

Figures Figure 1.1: Ferlay J, Laversanne M, Ervik M, Lam F, Colombet M, Mery L, Piñeros M, Znaor A, Soerjomataram I, Bray F (2024). Global Cancer Observatory: Cancer ...

Estimated number of new cancer cases and deaths by type (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) in Oceania, 2022 ...

Bladder Bone Brain Breast Colon Esophagus Eye Hematolymphatic Kidney Larynx Leukemia Liver Lung Mesothelioma Nasal Nasopharynx Non-Hodgkin lymphoma Ovary Salivary Gland Skin Stomach Thyroid ...

Effective interventions across the cancer continuum can reduce the burden and suffering from cancer and save millions of lives worldwide.