Cancer management starts with obtaining a valid diagnosis. However, lack of diagnostic imaging and pathologists are major barriers to receipt of high-quality oncologic care in many parts of the world.

The Global Relay For Life® program engages global organizations to empower communities and accelerate the fight for a world without cancer. Across the world, cancer organizations are using the Relay ...

Map 31.1. Estimated number of prevalent cases (5-year), as a proportion (world) per 100,000, 2022 ...

Map 25.1. Lung cancer incidence, age-standardized rate (world) per 100,000, by state, province, and territory in North America, 2016–2020 ...

Map 30.1. Availability of high-quality data for survival statistics, 2008-2014 ...

Cancer is the leading cause of premature death in North America. An estimated 2.1 million new cancer cases and 701,000 cancer deaths occur in North America each year. The region contributes almost ...

The region contributes about 50% of all new cancer cases (9.2 million) and over half of cancer deaths (5.1 million) worldwide each year.

Evidence of cancer cells in dinosaur fossils, found in 2003. Scotland In the early 1800s, Scottish physician John Waldrop proposed that “glioma of the retina,” which typically appeared within the eyes ...

The Cancer Atlas aims to increase knowledge, provide a reliable basis for evidence-based decision making, and inspire united action and partnerships against the cancer epidemic.

Northern Africa, Central and West Asia is a diverse region characterized by relatively low but increasing cancer incidence rates. Breast cancer is the most common cancer in both sexes combined in all ...

The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region has doubled in population size over the last half-century to 665 million inhabitants today. About 1.5 million new cancer cases and 741,000 cancer ...