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Tobacco use, infectious agents, unhealthy diet, excess body weight, physical inactivity, and alcohol consumption account for the majority of cancer deaths caused by known risk factors. Smoking causes multiple cancer types (see Risks of Tobacco), and smokeless tobacco causes cancers of the oral ...

Cancer treatment costs are increasing worldwide, making prevention and screening efforts more cost-effective and sometimes cost-saving. For example, when more expensive chemotherapies were considered in comparisons of colorectal cancer screening to no screening, treatment savings from preventing advanced cancer and death more than doubled in the US.

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 Carcinogens,” the IARC Monographs are critical reviews and evaluations of …

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Globally, there were an estimated 2.1 million lung cancer cases and 1.8 million deaths in 2018. Incidence and mortality rates vary 20-fold between regions. (Figure 1) The variation is similarly large across countries. The highest incidence rates …

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, although this number varies significantly by country. (Figure 1) There are large variations in ...

There are striking geographic differences in the incidence and mortality of different cancer types in different world regions. This global diversity reflects both the presence of local risk factors for specific cancers, and the extent to which effective cancer …