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2018년 전세계 암 발병률/사망률 통계

동 조사는 WHO 산하 국제암연구기구(IRCA)가 조사한 내용으로 분석결과를 CA저널(A Cancer Journal for Clinicians)을 통해 공개했습니다.

암 발병율 : (남성) 5명 중 1명, (여성) 6명 중 1명

암 사망률 : (남성) 8명 중 1명, (여성) 11명 중 1명

아시아 지역은 글로벌 암 발병율과 사망률의 절반 차지

주요 암종(발병,사망) : 폐암, 유방암, 결/직장암

Latest global cancer data:
Cancer burden rises to 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million cancer
deaths in 2018

Strictly embargoed until Wednesday 12 September 2018, 16h00pm Geneva time   

Geneva, Switzerland, 12 September 2018 ? The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) today released the latest estimates on the global burden of cancer. The GLOBOCAN 2018 database, accessible online as part of the IARC Global Cancer Observatory, provides estimates of incidence and mortality in 185 countries for 36 types of cancer and for all cancer sites combined. An analysis of these results, published today in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, highlights the large geographical diversity in cancer occurrence and the variations in the magnitude and profile of the disease between and within world regions.

Global cancer burden
The global cancer burden is estimated to have risen to 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million deaths in 2018. One in 5 men and one in 6 women worldwide develop cancer during their lifetime, and one in 8 men and one in 11 women die from the disease. Worldwide, the total number of people who are alive within 5 years of a cancer diagnosis, called the 5-year prevalence, is estimated to be 43.8 million.

The increasing cancer burden is due to several factors, including population growth and ageing as well as the changing prevalence of certain causes of cancer linked to social and economic development. This is particularly true in rapidly growing economies, where a shift is observed from cancers related to poverty and infections to cancers associated with lifestyles more typical of industrialized countries.

Effective prevention efforts may explain the observed decrease in incidence rates for some cancers, such as lung cancer (e.g. in men in Northern Europe and North America) and cervical cancer (e.g. in most regions apart from Sub-Saharan Africa). However, the new data show that most countries are still faced with an increase in the absolute number of cases being diagnosed and requiring treatment and care.

Global patterns show that for men and women combined, nearly half of the new cases and more than half of the cancer deaths worldwide in 2018 are estimated to occur in Asia, in part because the region has nearly 60% of the global population.

Europe accounts for 23.4% of the global cancer cases and 20.3% of the cancer deaths, although it has only 9.0% of the global population. The Americas have 13.3% of the global population and account for 21.0% of incidence and 14.4% of mortality worldwide. In contrast to other world regions, the proportions of cancer deaths in Asia and in Africa (57.3% and 7.3%, respectively) are higher than the proportions of incident cases (48.4% and 5.8%, respectively), because these regions have a higher frequency of certain cancer types associated with poorer prognosis and higher mortality rates, in addition to limited access to timely diagnosis and treatment in many countries.

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