Each year, 1.8 million people die from lung cancer, the cancer with the greatest number of preventable cancers.

Although most cancer survivors are currently concentrated in high-income countries ( Map 31.1 ), the number is expected to grow faster in transitioning countries due to increasing cancer incidence, ...

Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer in women in almost 90% of the world's countries.

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 ...

Evidence of cancer cells in dinosaur fossils, found in 2003. Scotland In the early 1800s, Scottish physician John Waldrop proposed that “glioma of the retina,” which typically appeared within the eyes ...

The region contributes about 50% of all new cancer cases (9.2 million) and over half of cancer deaths (5.1 million) worldwide each year.

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 Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has doubled in population size over the last half-century to 665 million inhabitants today. About 1.5 million new cancer cases and 741,000 cancer ...

Among the numerous potentially modifiable risk factors for cancer, reductions in tobacco use, infectious agents, excess body fatness, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption, excess ...