Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods

Abstract

Estimates of the worldwide incidence and mortality from 36 cancers and for all cancers combined for the year 2018 are now available in the GLOBOCAN 2018 database, compiled and disseminated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This paper reviews the sources and methods used in compiling the cancer statistics in 185 countries. The validity of the national estimates depends upon the representativeness of the source information, and to take into account possible sources of bias, uncertainty intervals are now provided for the estimated sex‐ and site‐specific all‐ages number of new cancer cases and cancer deaths. We briefly describe the key results globally and by world region. There were an estimated 18.1 million (95% UI: 17.5–18.7 million) new cases of cancer (17 million excluding non‐melanoma skin cancer) and 9.6 million (95% UI: 9.3–9.8 million) deaths from cancer (9.5 million excluding non‐melanoma skin cancer) worldwide in 2018.

Keywords

CancerInternational agencyDemographyRepresentativeness heuristicMedicineCancer incidenceSkin cancerCancer registryIncidence (geometry)Mortality rateStatisticsSurgeryInternal medicineMathematics

MeSH Terms

AdolescentAdultAgedAged80 and overCause of DeathChildChildPreschoolDatabasesFactualFemaleGlobal Burden of DiseaseHumansIncidenceInfantInfantNewbornMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsRisk FactorsSex DistributionSurvival RateYoung Adult

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Year: 2018
Type: article
Volume: 144
Issue: 8
Pages: 1941-1953
Citations: 7478
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                                    Jacques Ferlay, 
                                
                                    Murielle Colombet, 
                                
                                    Isabelle Soerjomataram
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2018). 
                            Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods. 
                            International Journal of Cancer
                            , 144
                            (8)
                            , 1941-1953.
                            https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.31937
                        

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DOI: 10.1002/ijc.31937
PMID: 30350310

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