In 2011, the global community adopted the Global Action Plan (GAP) for the prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs). The GAP urged countries to set national targets to address ...

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monographs (www.monographs.iarc.fr) identify environmental and occupational causes of human cancer. Sometimes called the WHO “Encyclopedia of ...

Resource-appropriate, broad application of known interventions in each country can substantially reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with cancer.

Figure 3. Untreated deaths in pain by region, 2016. Of untreated deaths in pain in 2016, 35% or 921,434 deaths were in East Asia and the Pacific; 27% or 714,069 deaths were in South Asia; 22% or ...

Learn about the prevalence of major known risk factors for cancer in populations around the world. Tobacco smoking is the predominant cause of cancer in most high-income countries, while infections ...

Worldwide, there were an estimated 18.1 million cases and 9.6 million cancer deaths in 2018 (including non-melanoma skin cancers), with one in four men and one in five women developing the disease, ...

Higher prevalence of risk factors, poor outcomes, and under-reporting are among the cancer control challenges for Indigenous peoples.

Understanding the transition from infection-related cancers to lifestyle-related cancers in many low- and middle-income countries is vital for planning tailored cancer control programs to reduce the ...

All cancer sites combined incidence rates in Southern, Eastern, and South- Eastern Asia, age-standardized rate (world) per 100,000, both sexes combined, 2018 Figure 3. Percentage of countries with ...

Opportunities for taking action for cancer control exist at all stages of the cancer continuum.

Breast cancer is the leading cancer type in females in most countries in the world in 2018. (Map 1) About one in twenty females will be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of their lifetime, ...