Cancer Worldwide - The global picture
This section contains worldwide cancer statistics.
Each year 10.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer and there are 6.7 million deaths from the disease. It is estimated that there are 24.6 million people alive who have received a diagnosis of cancer in the last five years.
You can download a PDF of the map of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in the different regions of the world, 2002 estimates for free.
The world cancer statistics in this section are derived from the IARC GLOBOCAN 2002 database, incidence and mortality rates cited are per 100,000 population and are age standardised to the world population.
Information on the population, age distribution and life expectancy in countries worldwide
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