Global Cancer Incidence and Mortality Rates and Trends—An Update
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...Thyroid cancer is the most rapidly increasing cancer in the United States(1) and has been increasing worldwide over the past few decades.(112) Studies suggest that the rise is primarily due to the increased incidental detection of indolent papillary tumors through widespread use of imaging....
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...In the United States, these increases are thought to be attributable to increased prevalence of chronic infectionwithHCVas a result of exposure to contaminated blood or medical equipment and injection drug abuse during the 1960s and 1970s, and possibly contributed to by increases in obesity and type 2 diabetes in recent years (64, 66, 67)....
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...In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends a one-time test for HCV infection for all adults born between 1945 and1965, as this group accounts for three-quarters of chronic HCV infections and HCVrelated deaths (74)....
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...Female breast cancer incidence rates vary by more than 10-fold among the selected registries, with the highest rates in Western Europe and the United States and the lowest rates in Africa and Asia (with the exception of Israel, which has among the highest rates; Supplementary Fig....
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...In the HICs of North America, Oceania, and Europe, rates are decreasing (United States, New Zealand, and France); relatively stable (Australia and Canada); or increasing (Norway, Spain, and Italy)....
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...Overall stomach cancer trends are dominated by the declining occurrence of non-cardia gastric cancer, which is linked to H. pylori (55); however, it is noteworthy that rates of gastric cardia cancer are increasing in the United States and many European countries (56–58)....
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...pylori infection due to sanitation and antibiotics, in addition to better availability of fresh produce and less reliance on salt-preserved foods (53)....
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...Chronic infection with HBV or HCV is more common in LMICs, where 92% of all liver cancers are attributed to these viruses (53)....
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...These cancers account for more than 60% of total global cases and deaths (5)....
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...4 million new colorectal cancer cases and 693,900 deaths (5)....
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...Stomach In 2012, an estimated 951,600 stomach cancer cases and 723,100 deaths occurred (5)....
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...Liver In 2012, liver cancer was estimated to be the second leading cause of cancer-related death among males (5)....
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...2 million cancer deaths occurred worldwide (5)....
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...This is thought to reflect increasing obesity, although the possible influence of improvements in classification of gastric cancers cannot be ruled out (57, 59, 60)....
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