Global estimates of cancer prevalence for 27 sites in the adult population in 2008
Centre international de recherche sur le cancer · National Institutes of Health
Abstract
Recent estimates of global cancer incidence and survival were used to update previous figures of limited duration prevalence to the year 2008. The number of patients with cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2008 who were still alive at the end of 2008 in the adult population is described by world region, country and the human development index. The 5-year global cancer prevalence is estimated to be 28.8 million in 2008. Close to half of the prevalence burden is in areas of very high human development that comprise only one-sixth of the world's population. Breast cancer continues to be the most prevalent cancer in the vast majority of countries globally; cervix cancer is the most prevalent cancer in much of…
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4Topics & keywords
- Cancer
- Medicine
- Population
- Demography
- Stomach cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Global health
- Breast cancer