Simiao Chen; Zhong Cao; Klaus Prettner; et al. JAMA Oncol. 2023;9(4):465-472
Cancers are a leading cause of mortality, accounting for nearly 10 million annual deaths worldwide, or 1 in 6 deaths. Cancers also negatively affect countries’ economicgrowth. This study estimated and projected the economic cost o...
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Jian Li, Xiaohong Kuang. Public Health 237 (2024) 336–343
This study aimed to assess the disease burden of cancer in young adults globally and the changes between 2012 and 2022. In young adults, 47.22 % of new cases were breast, thyroid and cervical cancer, while the leading causes of ca...
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Yuzhou Cai, Fangyi Dai, Ying Ye, et al. Sci Rep. 2025 Mar 18;15(1):9347
Breast cancer is the most prevalent malignant disease among women and affects women of reproductive age (15-49 years) across the globe. This study examines patterns and trends in the epidemiology of breast cancer in women of repro...
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Wenxin Yan, Min Liu, Wenzhan Jing et al. Exp Hematol Oncol. 2025 Mar 17;14(1):38
The global cancer burden is rising, with early-onset cancers becoming more prevalent. We aimed to investigate the burden, trend and population disparity in 33 early-onset cancers from 2012 to 2021. In 2021, there were 2.65 mi...
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Rupayan Kundu, Ankush Mukhopadhyay, Niladri Kal, et al .JCO Glob Oncol 12, e2500170(2026). Volume 12
Early-onset cancer (EOC), defined as cancer occurring in individuals age 15-49 years, represents a growing global health burden. In 2021, there were approximately 23.6 million new EOC cases and 0.99 million deaths globally....
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Eva Blondeaux1, Amir Sonnenblick, Elisa Agostinetto et al. Lancet Oncol. 2025 26(6):759-770
We investigated the association between risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) or risk-reducing salpingo-oophorectomy (RRSO), or both procedures, with survival outcomes in a large global cohort of young BRCA carriers with previous breast...
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Farhad Islami MD, Emily C. Marlow, Blake Thomson, et al. CA Cancer J Clin. 2024;74:405–432
The authors estimated the proportion and number of invasive cancer cases (excluding nonmelanoma skin cancers) and deaths, overall and for 30 cancer types among adults who were aged 30 years and older in 2019 in the United States,...
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Hanna Fink, Oliver Langselius, Jérôme Vignat, Harriet Rumgay, et al. Nature Medicine. Published online: 03 February 2026
We estimated the 2022 global and national cancer burden attributable to 30 such factors, including tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, high body mass index, insufficient physical activity, smokeless tobacco and areca nut, subopt...
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Katrina A. B. Goddard; Eric J. Feuer; Jeanne S. Mandelblatt; et al. JAMA Oncol. 2025;11(2):162-167.
The contributions of different interventions across the cancer control continuum was evaluated with primary prevention via smoking reduction (lung), screening for interception (cervix and colorectal) or early detection (breast, ce...
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Silvia Mignozzi, Claudia Santucci, Fabio Levi, et al. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2026 Mar 1;35(2):97-107.
We provided cancer mortality rate estimates for the year 2025 in six Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico), focusing on prostate cancer. We extracted mortality data for all cancers combine...
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Tania Alfaro, Kevin Martinez-Folgar, Dalia Stern, et al. Lancet Glob Health. 2025 Feb;13(2):e268-e276.
Understanding between-city variations in cancer mortality is crucial to inform national and subnational cancer prevention strategies. As part of the Salud Urbana en América Latina (SALURBAL) project, we aimed to describe the varia...
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Kenechukwu Kizito Igbokwe BMJ Open. 2024 Mar 29;14(3):e082492
This study aimed to evaluate the most up-to-date burden of female breast cancer and analyze the leading risk factors in countries and regions in sub-Saharan Africa. In sub-Saharan Africa, the incidences of breast cancer increased...
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