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IARC estimates 13,908 new cancer cases and 7,785 cancer deaths in Papua New Guinea in 2024; the commonest new cancers are breast, lip, oral cavity and cervix uteri. This page is assembled automatically from OnCo's data, and says what OnCo does not yet hold.
| Site | New cases | Rate | OnCo page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast | 1,494 | 41.3 | Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer |
| Lip, oral cavity | 1,414 | 20.0 | |
| Cervix uteri | 1,055 | 29.7 | Cervical cancer |
| Trachea, bronchus and lung | 1,023 | 15.0 | Lung cancer (all types), Non-small-cell lung cancer, Small-cell lung cancer |
| Colorectum | 995 | 18.4 | Colorectal cancer |
| Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts | 897 | 12.7 | Hepatocellular carcinoma |
| Prostate | 618 | 21.7 | Prostate cancer |
| Thyroid | 590 | 8.0 | Thyroid cancer |
| Leukaemia | 526 | 6.8 | Acute myeloid leukaemia, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia |
| Corpus uteri | 447 | 13.6 | Endometrial cancer |
| Site | Deaths | Rate | OnCo page |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trachea, bronchus and lung | 895 | 13.1 | Lung cancer (all types), Non-small-cell lung cancer, Small-cell lung cancer |
| Lip, oral cavity | 851 | 12.6 | |
| Liver and intrahepatic bile ducts | 773 | 10.8 | Hepatocellular carcinoma |
| Breast | 656 | 19.2 | Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, HER2-positive breast cancer |
| Cervix uteri | 635 | 18.4 | Cervical cancer |
| Colorectum | 490 | 10.1 | Colorectal cancer |
| Oesophagus | 393 | 6.5 | Oesophageal cancer |
| Prostate | 348 | 12.8 | Prostate cancer |
| Leukaemia | 315 | 4.1 | Acute myeloid leukaemia, Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia |
| Pancreas | 146 | 2.6 | Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma |
No trial record in OnCo lists a site in Papua New Guinea. OnCo reads sites from ClinicalTrials.gov; studies registered only elsewhere are searchable through the WHO International Clinical Trials Registry Platform.
OnCo holds no institution, company or person in Papua New Guinea.
OnCo records approvals for United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia and India. Papua New Guinea is not one of them, so no approval in OnCo speaks for it. See the approvals by region matrix for what is held.
Papua New Guinea is not among the 60 countries ranked in the country coverage queue (November 2026), which ranks countries without a page by cases, deaths, research output and population. Know a source? Suggest an edit.