LONDON — There were an estimated 20 million cancer cases and 9.7 million cancer deaths in 2022, the World Health Organisation’s cancer research agency said on Thursday (Feb 1), a growing burden that masks what it calls “striking inequity” among rich and poor countries.
Around one in five people develop cancer in their lifetimes, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said in a statement, and one in nine men and one in 12 women die from the disease.
But the threat of cancer varies depending on where a patient lives, IARC said in its biannual report based on data from 185 countries and 36 cancers.
For example, in the most developed countries, one in 12 women get breast cancer in their lifetimes, but only one in 71 women die from it.
In countries that are lower on the human development index, one in 27 women get breast cancer — in part because populations tend to be younger, but also as a result of a lower exposure to risk factors like being overweight — but one in 48 women die from it.
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