Global trends in lung cancer show continuing disparities
With over 2 million new cases globally in 2018, lung cancer remains the most prevalent cancer in the world. And with tobacco use accounting for somewhere between 80% and 90% of lung cancers, depending on region, it’s unsurprising that the World Conference on Lung Cancer this past weekend devoted an entire oral session to the “end-game” of a tobacco-free world. Yanting Zhang of Sun Yat-sen University in China presented new findings on global trends from the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s Cancer Incidence in Five Continents database.
Turkey had the highest lung cancer rates in men, followed by Belarus and Croatia, while women had the highest rates in Denmark, followed by Black women in the U.S. and women in Iceland. Uganda had the lowest rates for both sexes. Rates were about equal between the sexes in Uganda, Iceland, Denmark, Canada, New Zealand, and the white population of the U.S.
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