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This is a list of countries by cancer frequency, as measured by the number of new cancer cases per 100,000 population among countries, based on the 2018 GLOBOCAN statistics and including all cancer types (some earlier statistics excluded non-melanoma skin cancer).
Worldwide, breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer in women. [note 1] Breast cancer comprises 22.9% of invasive cancers in women [2] and 16% of all female cancers. [3] In 2008, breast cancer caused 458,503 deaths worldwide, which is 13.7% of cancer deaths in women and 6.0% of all cancer deaths for men and women together. [2]
This is a list of countries ranked by the quality of healthcare, as published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . [1] The ranking takes into account various health outcomes, including survival rates for seven types of cancer, as well as for strokes and heart attacks.
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Worldwide, breast cancer is the leading type of cancer in women, accounting for 25% of all cases. [17] In 2018, it resulted in two million new cases and 627,000 deaths. [18] It is more common in developed countries, [2] and is more than 100 times more common in women than in men.
The same applies for cancer mortality, but with lung cancer replacing breast/prostate cancer as the main cause. [ citation needed ] In 2016, an estimated 1,685,210 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the United States and 595,690 people will die from the disease.
The most common cancer among women in the United States is breast cancer (123.7 per 100,000), followed by lung cancer (51.5 per 100,000) and colorectal cancer (33.6 per 100,000), but lung cancer surpasses breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women. [13]
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