Jemal 2011: Global cancer statistics (GLOBOCAN 2008)
The world cancer count for 2008: about 12.7 million new cases, with more than half of cases and almost two thirds of deaths already occurring in the economically developing world, breast cancer the most common cancer in women and lung cancer in men.
Overview
Jemal, Bray and colleagues summarised the GLOBOCAN 2008 estimates for the American Cancer Society. They reported about 12.7 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths in 2008, of which 56% of cases and 64% of deaths occurred in the economically developing world. Breast cancer was the most frequently diagnosed cancer and leading cause of cancer death in women; lung cancer held both positions in men. The paper stressed that the burden was shifting to lower-income countries and that much of it was preventable through tobacco control, vaccination and early detection.
- About 12.7 million new cancer cases and 7.6 million cancer deaths worldwide in 2008.
- 56% of cases and 64% of deaths in the economically developing world.
- Breast cancer the leading cancer in women and lung cancer in men, for both incidence and death.
For years the most cited paper in oncology, it fixed the picture of cancer as a growing problem of developing countries and is the baseline against which the 2012, 2018, 2020 and 2022 GLOBOCAN releases show the burden rising.
- Estimates for many countries were modelled from sparse registry data.
- Superseded by later GLOBOCAN releases.
Similar pages
not linked directly; found by shared links- Key paperFerlay 2015: sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
Shares Torre 2015: Global cancer statistics, 2012, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- Key paperBray 2018: GLOBOCAN 2018, worldwide incidence and mortality for 36 cancers
Shares Freddie Bray, Torre 2015: Global cancer statistics, 2012, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality.
- Key paperSung 2021: GLOBOCAN 2020, the year breast cancer overtook lung cancer as the most diagnosed cancer
Shares Freddie Bray, Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- Key paperFerlay 2019: GLOBOCAN 2018 sources and methods
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- Key paperFerlay 2021: cancer statistics for the year 2020, an overview
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO).
- Key paperSiegel 2022: Cancer statistics, 2022
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
- Key paperBray 2024: GLOBOCAN 2022, the world's cancer count for 36 cancers in 185 countries
Shares Freddie Bray, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
- Key paperFitzmaurice 2017: the Global Burden of Disease estimate of cancer in 2015
Shares Incidence versus prevalence, Mortality, Non-small-cell lung cancer.