Global And Regional Cancer Epidemiology: According To World Cancer Report 2012 And Others

Mohiuddin Alamgir

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dc.contributor.author	Mohiuddin Alamgir
dc.date.accessioned	2018-11-16T04:39:09Z
dc.date.available	2018-11-16T04:39:09Z
dc.date.issued	2018-10-01
dc.identifier.issn	2220-7562
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7720
dc.description.abstract	The International Agency on Cancer (IARC) has initiated World Cancer Report 2012 in 2014. The report estimates the worldwide incidence and mortality for 27 major cancers and for all cancers combined for 2012 and is available in the GLOBOCAN series of the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Overall, there were 14.1 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths in 2012. The most commonly diagnosed cancers were lung (1.82 million), breast (1.67 million), and colorectal (1.36 million); the most common causes of cancer death were lung cancer (1.6 million deaths), liver cancer (745,000 deaths), and stomach cancer (723,000 deaths). In Pakistan, there are over 1.4 million cancer patients. Annually there are 139,200 new cancer cases and 101,600 deaths. Incidences of cancers are different in different parts of Pakistan as depicted by reports generated by two major cancer registries in the country	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	JBUMDC	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Bahria University Medical and Dental College Karachi	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	8;4
dc.subject	GLOBOCAN, incidence, cancer, global estimates, mortality	en_US
dc.title	Global And Regional Cancer Epidemiology: According To World Cancer Report 2012 And Others	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US